Day 7

Off to Venice!

Fun facts: Venice is a lagoon: with both fresh and salt water sources.

Yum. They tasted like those things that come in a pack of pink, vanilla and chocolate wafers with white frosting centers? You know? ...But with Dark chocolate in between each layer. :)

Pigeons!

The Grand Canal

Our Gondola crew

Apparently Mozart stayed there while studying in Italy.

Oh, McHot-Gondolier guy!

:D

He looked like someone straight off that show... with Snooki

Jersey Shore! Sorry. Brain fart.

Another cast member from Jersey Shore.

At dinner that night we were serenaded by a guy and his accordion.

Yikes.

This meal was horrible. Not to sound completely negative, but it really was. It was 4 courses... of horrid pasta. HOW DO YOU MESS PASTA UP, IN ITALY!?! Then we had lemon gelato and afterwards had to haul butt to our boat so we wouldn't get stuck in Venice overnight.

Venice was blasted hot (and being from Vegas, I think I've got some street-cred in the "knowing hot weather" dept.!).

You literally feel/sound like you're "walking the plank" all day because if the ground isn't faux-granite, its wooden plank-boards! I got a lace fan, I didn't know this, but Venice is famous for their lace. We also got to watch a glass-blowing demonstration and...that was really quite impressive. Kudos to the guys that do that.

Venice in one word: Pigeons