Venezia in pictures

quick stop in Padova where we were locked in a temperature controlled room which they then used to adjust the temperature in the church in order to preserve the frescoes...bought shoes.

First impression of Venice: Too cramped with narrow streets, too touristy. But the church was really pretty

Friends made: 2 australians, a couple on a cruise, a middle aged world traveller (who has been to the Amazon four times), a bulgarian man and his wife, two girls who work in Utah, and a Californian who speaks perfect Italian

at first playing with the pigeons was really exciting and funny

they kept landing on my head, i didn't even have food on me.

they did crazy tricks like the above-seen double decker pigeons

but it went from being exciting to being less than exciting (see facial expressions):

we took a taxi to Murano where we saw one man make a tiny fish out of glass and gave it to Sharlie. This was after the adventure to find a glass blower that involved hopping fences, walking across a decrepit bridge and hopping another fence.

we all got weird rooms, some without bathrooms and some without showers. we were split into two and threes, but we came up with a plan so we could all be in one room...

tre ragazze...uno letto.


birthdays celebrated: 1

we sang to Kimberly in English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and made-up Croatian

went to Burano where the houses are painted bright colours so that drunk sailors could find their way home.

i fit in nicely.

then gravity disappeared...!

one of my favourite things was the winged lions that gaurd all of Venice.

ciao, Italia!

in honor of my last full day of the program, Lynzie and I showed up to the morning meeting wearing our sheets as togas. People laughed and raised eyebrows but no one was really that surprised. Sadly no picture was taken though.