Venice

This ones for you dad! You would have loved the open fish market!!



The week after Spring Break Christine’s (better known as Beans) parents arrived in Florence! It was so fun to have parents in town! Almost as good and the real thing (my parents). The Abel family was nice enough to invite to out to a few meals with them one which included a chef that came to the house they were staying out! The lady was SO great we had a four-course meal that included artichokes, polenta, pasta, chicken, and chocolate cake! Yum yum yum!

After the week in Florence Chelsea and I went with Christine and her family to Venice for the weekend! This was the first time we have stayed in a real hotel since being aboard and boy was it a treat! Robes, slippers, a private shower, not a twin sized bed, the amentias are endless! After settling in we took a boat over to another island off of Venice called Murano. Here was the famous place where glass blowing started! We got to watch the guys make all different things from glass including horses, bowls, etc. After we walked the factory we were taken into a showing room where we got to observe some of the one of a kind pieces that were made there. Lets just say I walked away empty handed after finding out that one goblet alone was 900 Euro……

Next on the list was dinner! Being the Abel’s and that they are super planners we had reservations at a little place not far from where we were staying! Everything here was amazing including my homemade pasta noodles and the fish! At dinner the Captain (Christine’s dad) had ordered a bottle of white wine, being a nice place the restaurant kept it chilled in a bucket for us…blah blah blah….ends up as we went to refill our glasses Debbie (one of the other ladies that had come on the trip with us) accidently had taken the wrong bottle of wine out of the bucket. This of course caused our table to start laughing hysterically and trying to make it look like that was ours all along. Ended up that the table across from us knew that they had the wrong bottle so the restaurant ended up giving them a new one but Oh was that SOOOOOO funny!

The next day we took a gondola ride around the canals of the city! Omg the view of the city is waayyy better from on the water! After the ride we kinda walked around and casually strolled through the piazzas. It was nice to get to bed early every night and kind of not have a whole lot to do…sooo relaxing! We headed back to Florence on Sunday and could not have asked for better weather! Spring is in the air and I LIKE IT!