Day 6: Venezia

Slept in until 9.30am! Woo-hoo! Finally a solid night of great sleep. The beds are so much nicer at this hotel. Big room. So nice! Grabbed some free breakfast at the hotel and then took off.

Our agenda for the day: GET LOST! There are so many little islands and canals on these islands that there is no other way to go. So we did. And lost we got. Wonderfully.

Eventually, we found St. Mark's Square. [Think: "I love this woman, I love this woman... I love this man" commercial.] Pigeons galore...



So I decided to offer my arm...



So did Holly...



Saw the basilica (lots of goldleaf) and then consulted the book of armaments as to where to go next...



How 'bout a canal?...



And a fruit stand?...



Some gondolas?...





We met this cool couple from Spain and talked for some time on the boat down the Grand Canal. Cool people. Great English speakers! They snapped this one of us...



Found a wonderful place for lunch. A rotisseria with great pasta and good wine. Cheap too! More getting lost. Siesta.

Woke up from the siesta to watch the BBC news covering the inauguration. I cannot stand listening to that man speak, so I turned the TV off. Really.

And then a late afternoon stroll and some shopping... got Holly some yarn, a sweater, some other giftts...



Pizza for dinner. Enough! (Basta!) And a Guiness.

Then we checked out this Light Show thing set to music. Interesting. Ended up falling asleep, so we went home. 11pm! Wow, what night owls. One full day left... What shall we do?