Europe 2012: The Adventure on the Sinking Island

Today we started off our day the best way you can! A great breakfast. This is probably going to be the best it ever gets with fruit, fresh juice, croissants, eggs and multiple coffee options. We loaded the bus and started our journey to Venice. We took our bus, then got onto a boat to arrive at the sinking island. First we stopped at Murano to see the fabulous demonstration of blowing glass. He could make a horse in less than 2 minutes! It was amazing. It started as a clump of hot, melted glass and with 3 tugs, the head was already created. When we finished looking at everything in the gift shop, we got back on the boat and off to Venice! While there, we met with a local tour guide to give us a look around Venice. Next we got lunch (pizza and sandwiches) and then we were so fortunate to have a ride down the streets of water on the gondolas. We walked, and walked until we arrived back at St. Marks square to go into the Doges Palace. We probably spent 2 hours in there (would have been an our and a half but Yvonne was too busy reading everything that was there). We shopped on the streets, ran into fake Gucci, Coach, and Louis Vuitton purses and began our trip back to our hotel. Off to supper, shower and now it is finally bed time! With all of our walking today I'm sure we will all fall asleep early tonight, even if we tried to sleep on the bus but unfortunately fell off :)