The shoe sale of a lifetime, every Thursday.
What happens when you mix shoe shopping and drinking! Italian Karaoke.
Literally too cool for school!
Just another lunch in Italy! Pasta with fresh tuna.
From just outside the train station. Quit a view to start your trip.
All the buildings just have the coolest look to them. Then to know they are basically just floating there is crazy.
Grand Canal.
More Karaoke debauchery.
A gondola. Very romantic, but not for me on this trip, maybe when someone else gets here.
No wonder everyone in Italy is small. Look at the size of these streets.
Now that is shrimp scampi!
At night from one of the 6 crossing points.
Cool church. We didn't enter.
I snapped this photo though before the priest saw me. Does that count as original sin?
The fish and produce market. Everyday except Sunday and full of amazing fresh goodness.
A pic from the water taxi.
On our way out to Murado.
The master glass blower doing a demo for us.
He spun it around and yet never let it drop.
I do love the work uniform but working with glass and Jeff don't mix well.
Tad-ah! A new vase.
This demo had no blowing, just pulling and twisting with tools.
You can start to see the horse shape here.
A different glass master made this. It is called falling star. It is generational job from dads to sons, uncles to nephews.
I don't know but it looked cool.
Part of the Piazza San Marco.
It opens up to the big space and good thing because there were tons of people.
The Cathedral
The front was painted with images from the Bible.
A guy came out from up here and when he saw me coming ran back in. "Oh no, it is the Hotchkiss! Lock the doors!" Nice to be recognized.
This is the church that let us in, suckers.
Close up of outside.
A very nice alter of which they had several.
The middle interior. It was roped off.
The top of the dome had statues carved all around it.
Prayer only area.
Darn holy light messing up my photos.
I'm thinking about getting one of these.
I have tried to convince Ehren that we need to come visit, so far, no go. So, I guess you'll have to wait for that romantic gondola ride :) Looks like you're having a blast, I'm jealou!
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