today is day 1 in Venice! so hello from Venice. :) we are currently staying at a bed an breakfast, which is the best decision we could have made, our bed and breakfast renters have been very helpful. they got us bus tickets and also picked us up and dropped us off from the airport and back into Venice. they are named Fausto and Debra. and he looks like george clooney from nose up. tomorrow we get breakfast at 8am. anything I better than 3am like this morning. we got picked up by a private car service which was a van, and the doorman from our apartment watched us as we climbed into this unmarked van, it probably looked like a very strange situation. lol. there was a surprisingly number of cars on the road at 3:45 am...thankfully not as many as there could have been. because that would have not made for fun driving. we got to the airport at 4...although it wasn't open until 5. we were first in line to go through security. our plane didn't leave till 7. but we started boarding at 6:15ish. since we had no assigned seats, everyone charges to the Gate, but it didn't matter because once w got through, we were shuttled ona bus and actually able to board the plane from stairs outside...like they do in movies! it was so cool. an our group of 5 made it into the front part of the plane, an area I've never Been in! the plane was supposed to be 1hr and 15 min, instead, it took less than 45 min. and we met Fausto at the airport and he drove us to the bed and breakfast. on a side note, cars in Italy are super small, so we were wondering what about families that are larger than 4 people, and we found out th answer to that, faustos car only had 4 passwnge seats, with one more seat in the trunk, but it was an actual seat! the bed and breakfast is this cute little house that's yellow. it adorable! from there we payed and got information , then dropped off in Venice, where we just started wondering around. and ended up on a gondalo ride, ( the long boats with the driver in the red stripped shirt) he whistled and sang a bit, it only cost 16€ each while we watche another group get charged 200€! lol we got information about various buildings, did u know in venice there are more churches than islands? the gandalo was awesome, and our pictures probably are in a million peoples pictures tonight. we did lots of shopping and randomly walked into a few churches. it started raining and once it starte to downpour, we decided at around 5. to find our bus home..that took a little bit of time, but we did it. our bed and breakfast is right across from a pizza place, that we ate supper at, and now we are all in bed and it's 9pm.
so ttyl! marsha
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