Our first trip with our guests was to the romantic, waterside city of Venice. Brock and I had been before for our anniversary and we were so excited to return in warmer weather and bring Jake and Christina. The charm of the city was exactly how we remembered it; water ways filled with boats and gondolas, streets with quaint shops filled with Murano glass sculptures and beautiful, historical buildings with intricate architecture towering in the town.
We spent our two days in Venice walking the island. Our conversations started with Jake and Christina repeating… “We are in Venice!” “We just ate gelato in Venice.” “We just… “fill in the blank… “in Venice!” They kept saying, “This doesn’t seem real. I feel like we are in a movie.”
One thing that we had to do while we were visiting was go on a gondola ride. We scoped out the gondola captains and tried to “assess” which one would be the best captain to make our experience a great one. A jolly, Italian man won us over and led us to a gondola where he assisted us on, and left us with a hard, non-smiling, grumpy man who didn’t seem to want to take us on our ride. We boarded the gondola and were strategically placed in our seats based on our size…okay based on Brock’s size. We were slightly disappointed we were unable to sit together because Brock had specific instructions to sit in his seat, close to the front, on a special chair, and NOT move! Even with these instructions, the gondola still leaned to the right. Although our gondola man didn’t sing and wasn’t jolly; we had a great time singing our version of Italian songs and taking pictures of our gondola ride through Venice.
We enjoyed a delicious full course dinner at a really nice restaurant and of course some gelato for dessert. We were exhausted after a day full of walking and touring and we couldn’t wait to get to our hotel and rest up for our last day in Venice. We sat by the water and watched the boats go by and we took a water taxi to the other side of the island where the train station was. We took our last few pictures and said Arrivederci to Venice. These memories made there would be special memories that only us 4 would have together.
Around Milan.
Exploring in Venice.
Our romantic gondola ride together.
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