I can't believe this was not only going to be our last day in Venice, but our last day in Italy. How can anyone ever want to leave this magical country? Trust me it was not easy, but we still had one wonderful day left and we definitely made the most of it. First off was breakfast. I was really going to miss all those wonderful breakfasts. On our way out, I had this great idea to take some pictures from our hotel balcony. Apparently, we weren't the only ones to have had … [Read more...]
Summer trip to Italy 2013 Day 8
I awoke to a beautiful summer morning in Venice. Today we were going inside St. Mark's Basilica, the Doge's Palace, and few other places we just had to see, plus we went on our very first gondola ride! Of course, we had to start off with a hearty breakfast at our hotel. Once we finished with the difficult task of trying everything, we walked the short distance to St. Mark's Basilica. We had about an hour before the basilica opened, so I put Mom in line and walked around to try … [Read more...]
Summer trip to Italy 2013 Day 7
Today is the day we were going to Venice! We were so excited to finally get to visit Venice and see a real gondolier in person. First, we had to actually get there from Florence. We had time to grab a little breakfast first, in our hotels beautiful breakfast room, before we needed to head to the train station. While we were waiting for the breakfast room to open, we started up a conversation with another lady that was waiting, as well. Once breakfast was ready to be served, we … [Read more...]