Venice...and snow!?!?!?!

So it has been two weeks and a little bit more sense my last post basically because we went to Venice and then spring break!

So two weeks ago we went to Venice from Tuesday to Friday. Well none of us figured it would be really cold till one of our professors decided to inform us of the possible chance of snow. Yea...snow!! So packing for a week in Venice and then another week after were climate changes will occur is not easy! I luckily had it easier because I was staying in Italy but for some of my friends...not so lucky. Especially with the issue of only taking one bag for two weeks.

So Tuesday we left for Venice at like 7 A.M. with the train to Florence which when we were in Florence we catch a Eurostar (a very fast train) to Venice! When we arrived we took the bus boat to our hotel on lido. Which the hotel was nice except with all of us having to take showers in the morning uses up all the hot water really fast!

That Tuesday after dropping our stuff off at the hotel and grabbing some food for lunch we went to St. Marks square for the first time. Which included a two hour tour which none of us were prepared for the cold wind!!!! Got a great look at Venice and surrounding area of St. Marks.

The next day we all woke up to a wonderful shower of SNOW!! Yes...SNOW! In the middle of March...I did not understand this! I can only say that it was caused by Global Climate Change. It was intense though because it just snowed and snowed like Colorado style. It must have snowed like 5 in. Well we all found out that the plans for that day were cancelled because of the snow, but they encouraged us to go to St. Marks Basilica on our own. Which we did of course and got there to see them light up the inside at 11 which was so amazing!!!

After we saw the basilica we were done completely for the day so we just walked around Venice going in and out of all the shops. Which was a nice change sense we were use to having to stand and listen to a tour guide for 2 hours at least!

Thursday we went to Murano, Burano, and Tortecllo with my Archeology class. It is was cool! My favorite out of all three of those places was Burano because the houses were so colorful!! Murano was cool of course because it is the location of all the hand made glass.

That took most of our day Thursday, but after we were done with touring those three places we headed back to the hotel to start to pack because the next day was Friday!! Which for everyone it meant a day of traveling! But for me it meant Heather and Mom were arriving!!