Venice

We spent one day in Venice. It was a wonderful city, with no cars, only boats. The main boat transportation system called the vaporetti, is like the bus on water. We explored Doge's Palace and St. Mark's Basilica and wandered around town. We found a cute little restaurant out of the guidebook (Rick Steve's is awesome!!) and had delicious cinchetti (little appetizers) and pasta with crab and tiramisu. Jacob enjoyed partaking in the 1 euro glasses of house wine (ordering this was his best Italian phrase:) Over the course of the trip I slowly developed a taste for wine too, as it was almost cheaper than water. By the way, turns out Jacob is really good at finding his way around...I would have been walking around in circles all day down the narrow allies, but he knew where we were each time. Venice is a lot bigger than we thought and we only got to explore about half of it while we were there...of course we did have to spend some our time eating the gelatto and pizza that you buy from the stalls in the street.

On the Rialto Bridge (Jacob is looking uncomfortable because I made him wear his slacks in the 90 degree weather so we could get into the church...he conveniently (actually mistakingly) left these clothes in the closet at the hotel in Florence:(

St. Mark's Basilica

The Doge's Palace

View of the canal from the Doge's Palace