Venice, Italy

This past weekend Mark, Darren, Beth, and I made a trip to Venice, Italy! I loved it so much! It was beautiful! It was everything I thought it would be and maybe even a little nicer! We left at 7 am on Saturday and took a train straight to the islands. It was a very gorgeous train ride! We arrived then about 11:30am and checked right into our hotel which was only a couple minutes walk from the train station thankfully :) We dropped of our stuff and headed out to find lunch! We were a little worried because before we left we checked the weather and it was supposed to rain all weekend, but for the start of our trip the weather was amazingly sunny and warm!

During the afternoon we roamed the city, stopping as we thought necessary to look into churches and such. At one point we stopped in St. Mark's Square where there are pigeons everywhere...so many you can't even imagine. So we stopped and bought feed and so then they came and perched right on us and flew all around us. It was a little scary at first but then it was really cool!

After roaming for a few hours we decided to head back to the hotel to take an hour nap which turned into a 3 hour nap, but it was okay...I think we all needed the rest. We got up then and wandered the night streets of Venice which were stunning! Oh, so romantic :) We found dinner then walked a little more and went back to the hotel to hang out and play cards.

Sunday then we got up and had breakfast at the hotel and checked out. We then went to the church down the street for mass. It was a cute little parish and we ended up sitting two rows behind an adorable little girl which definitely made my day with all her entertainment :) Again, though it was supposed to rain, the sun was out! We walked around a little more before we had to catch our train at 2:30pm. Our train then got back to Rome at about 7:15pm so we booked it back here to Bernardi to get Sunday night dinner with the rest of the group!

Although we didn't really do much in Venice it was an awesome trip! It was nice again not to have an agenda to get to so many places! Besides the fact, there isn't really a whole lot to do in Venice other than take it in for what it is!

So that is what my time has been like lately! Other than that I am just sitting around Bernardi trying to accomplish some homework for final tests and papers! That has been quite the chore and I want to get it all done before my roommates Kristen and Amanda get here in a week and a half...of which I am super pumped for!

I will continue to keep posted on anything new around here!

Love you all and miss you all!
Amanda