Boating Venice

We just left Venice and I believe it will always hold a special place in our hearts. It is touristy yes, especially when one goes on a holiday for all Europeans, Easter Monday, but it is still Venice! We got in later than expected Sunday evening because of snow in Zurich where we had a bit of a layover. Our challenge was to get from the airport to the train station by bus and then pick up the water bus to take us to our stop, and then find our hotel amidst the winding streets and canals of Venice. Needless to say, we found it, but what an adventure! We woke up bright and early in the morning and went on a walk through St. Marks Piazza without any other tourists, it was wonderful! We will show you a pic of it. Then we went back to sleep:) We hit the streets again after our rest and picked up some tickets for the water bus and museums-we still get a bit of a break cause we are kids:) We went through a museum and then wandered a bit more till we got too tired and rested again-well call it jet-lag. Dinner was great, but challenging to figure out Italian, mainly because Matt forgot the language book, thankfully however we received the only english-speaking server! After a mad rush to find some good gelato and/or something else sweet-sadly we failed-it was too late-lame! The next day we found a grocery store that was INCREDIBLY small! You cannot imagine how much they tried to stuff in that store, along with carts and many people, it was a claustrophobic nightmare! We took a water bus to an island named Murano that afternoon with a million other people, which eventually gave me a bit of a panic attack, but thankfully not until we hit some land and I could get off. Im not sure if it is being pregnant but I seem to be prone to waves of nausea when squished tightly against other people lately, imagine that! Other than that, the bebe is doing fantastic! Anyways, Murano was delightful. We got panini sandwiches and gelato and shopped, it was great. They make beautiful glass on Murano, which we got to see them making, that was really neat-a safety hazard I believe as they let us walk right up to the workers with their hot pieces of glass. Yesterday was busy as we visited the Doges Palace (the palace of the "Kings" of Venice back in the day when Venice was an international business hotspot), St. Marks Bascilica, went shopping, hit the bus and came to Bled, Slovenia. We awoke to a gorgeous breakfast, which made us very happy. It is currently raining, so hopefully we will still be able to get out and about today. Sorry, there are no apostrophes on this keyboard, but there are some fun extras like č,ć, š, đ and ž! Well give you another post whenever possible, thanks for reading!