Sorry it's been a while. The last couple days I've been super busy, but more on that later!
Friday-
Friday morning I had a nutella and banana crepe for breakfast. A great way to start the day. :) Then we all met up with the rest of the program to go on our tour for the day. The weather was a little bit chilly in Venice the entire time, but that day felt especially cold. We took a ferry from Venice to Burano with our tour guide. Once we got to Burano though, they let us loose on the island to go explore, take pictures, and observe. Burano was so cool and colorful! Every house was painted a different color. We wandered around taking pictures, going through small alleys, and adventuring about. At one point we found a little kids park and spent a good hour playing on all of the toys, taking pictures, and just generally acting silly. It was really fun. After that we wandered around the island a bit more. Burano is famous for making lace and boy was there lace everywhere. There were lace table clothes, clothes, bread baskets, toilet roll hangers, handkerchiefs, you name it, it was there. I bought my great grandma, Mimi, a present there that I'm excited to give her when I get home. After some more wandering we stopped for lunch at a restaurant in the main part of town. This was by far the most tourist trap oriented place I've been so far. They had a 10% service charge, a cover charge per person, as well as a bread charge. This is the first restaurant we've been to that added that many charges. Stupid. Lunch wasn't all that great either. But after lunch we went to a pasticceria that was quite fabulous. I had a little tart and a chocolate mousse thing that was so sweet I almost couldn't eat it. Then we went and saw some famous person's house and I don't remember what his name was, but his house was by far the most cool and colorful of them all. Then we met up with the rest of the group and headed back to Venice. Back in Venice, we went back to our hotel room to rest for a few minutes and then wandered back out again into the city. I took some of the girls to a store called Promod that I'd been to last time I was in Venice. They had a great time shopping there. After that we met up with some more people and went mask hunting because everyone wanted masks. I bought a little tiny one that has gigantic green and black feathers surrounding it's head. It's really cool. We then took a gondolier ride because everyone needs to do that at least once in their life. Our gondolier man was really funny; he bought asparagus from a passing boat while he was taking us around. After the gondolier ride, we wandered a bit more and then headed back to the hotel to meet up with the rest of the program. From there we all went out to dinner where they gave us a very strange seafood apperitivi and pasta and a delicious tiramisu and chocolate tort dessert. Then our tour guide gave us all little easter presents and they sent us on our way. It was still pretty early, but we were tired so we just went back to the hotel and went to sleep.
Sabato-
Saturday morning I woke up early and walked with Irma to get a croissant and cappuccino for breakfast. On the way back we popped in to a beautiful small church that was on the same street as our hotel. It was very pretty inside, but not as ornate as a lot of churches I've seen. Then we all met up and took the train back to Venice. On the train ride one of the boys lent me their iPod to listen to a remixed version of the Tron soundtrack by Daftpunk. That was awesome. I enjoy cool techno music. After the train ride we went back to our apartment to rest, we went to the grocery store and then that night Kelsey Ondrak, a girl from Chi Omega who has been studying in Spain came to visit us. She's spending Saturday through Tuesday night with us, which so far has been really fun. She, Casey, and I just sat around our kitchen table and talked for hours after she arrived.
Domenica
Sunday morning we got up late, completely forgetting it was Palm Sunday. Some of the girls went to mass, but four of us decided to take a bus to a really beautiful park we had heard about. It was really hot on the bus ride over, but of course the second we got to the park with our little picnics, the weather turned cold. The park we wanted to go to, Villa Alda, was also supposed to be really big and the park we ended up at was very small so we honestly have no idea where we were that day. Once the weather turned cold we ended up going back and catching the bus. Right after we got on the bus it started to rain so we were glad we left! We ended up getting gelato (Nutella, Cioccolato, e Arancia Rossa) and then going back to the apartment to chill. Right after we got back to the apartment, the rest of the girls showed up with the entire boys apartment. They had brought dinner to make us and a movie to watch. Dinner was delicious and then we watched an old comedy called Grandma's Boy and then the Hangover. It was a fun and entertaining night.
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