Day 2 - Photos

The clock tower in San Marco Square!

    

San Marco's Cathedral

Making Dinner

Le Gran Canal

Where they fix the Gandales

Day 2

Today I woke up to the sounds of church bells  a ringing, though Venice has never really been a religous city in Italy. It was different. haha! But I still got a full ngihts sleep. As I got ready this morning I heard the music in the Vivaldi museum playing across the campo and people singing behind us. Ed later told us there is a music school in the area thus all the music, but it was rather pleasant to hear. 

Some of us met up at 11AM to go on a tour to see where the grocery store and art supply store. Along with other points of interest. We hung a talked during the Dormentia or Ceista. We Then bought some groceries. On the walk back I indulged myself in some Gelatto. nom nom...We got some good preices on the gorceries. 

At 5-ish we made dinner. Katya was our main chef, spaghetti noodles, Balsamic, onions, garlic, and bell peppers. It was delish! 

Then A bunch of the people from our aparment wandered around. And we saw some cool sites!

Day 1

We arrive in Venice much earlier than expected. The flight was expected to land at 9:05 AM, but rather we landed at about 8:30 AM not to mention we started 30 minutes late! So our pilot was booking it. Overall the flight took about 8 hours. Customs was a breeze, stamp and we were done. Pick up our luggage and realize we have 7 hours until we could meet Ed at the Apartments. So we started our journey through Venice carrying out luggage in tow.

We got our tickets and took a bus to Pizzale de Rome. The plants

here are a wierd combination of plants you

see at home and down in florida. The houses and apartments are old and colorful with tile roof tops! So gorgeous. The bus took us to the heart of Vencie and there we got on a Water bus to Giglio.  

We got a little lost trying to find the campo where are plaza was and traveled in the completely wrong direction for over an hour. it was hot, and our luggage was heavy NO FUN! But we made it to the apartments then by noon-ish and waited for three hours for Ed. And other joined us along te way.

All of us are here except for Mollie of course. We got ot know each other pick our rooms and Then at 7 seven we enjoyed a delicious Pizza Dinner with some delicious wine! This is the Italian life. We walked back and got some Gellatto. I ahd Coffee and Mint chocolate ship, mmmm. I will have more pics now that I'm not schlepping my luggage around. 

Chiao!

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May 22, 2009 – Day 0

Well they day started with a wonderful bon voyage call from my dear friend Valerie. At 11 AM my father and I left the house to go to O’Hare airport. I went through security on problem, waved one final goodbye to my father and headed to the gate. There my two friends and travel companions Dominick and Cristina were waiting. We talked and then boarded the plane to head to Philadelphia. That was a short flight, but it was nice having Dominick behind me to make the occasional amusing quip back and forth.

We landed in Philly at about 4:40 Eastern Time. We walked through the airport to the international terminal which is forever and a day away from the rest of the airport, but there were people movers haha! Then we got to the A gates and became confused since we were at gate A4 and the gates went A1, A2, A3, A5, A7, then around the corner was A4. We had an hour to kill so we wandered back up and down the terminal. Learned of Philly musicians from the walls because “why would the walls lie to us?” While wandering we found three others head to Venice on our same study abroad trip that just arrived from Indy: Liv, Amanda, and Molly. Apparently their flight was horrid and they felt a little motion sick from it.

We boarded the plane at about 5:40 and were given forms to fill out regarding everyone’s favorite virus, SWINE FLU or to be politically correct H1N1. We took our seats and began to fill them out. Not long after our friend Molly started exiting the plane stop to inform us that she was being kicked off the plane. The flight before as I had said made them motion sick, well she threw up on the plane and was told she might have swine flu and couldn’t fly to Venice. So we’ll see how that pans out. Now’s she scared in Philly and we’re all a little pissed. No to mention she’s going to miss the orientation Pizza Dinner. She called Liv and told her she plans on flying to Venice to join us in a few days. I certainly hope so, I was looking forward to getting to know her since she is a graphic design student too, and already a BFA which I’m applying for next semester. See you tomorrow in Venice!