Last weekend Christina, Jessie, Molly, Lauren and I went to Venice and it was so awesome! Jessie decided to fly because she found a cheap flight and so she arrived a few hours before the rest of us. We took the train which is a 4:30 hour ride but it really doesn't feel that long. For some reason airplanes seem to take forever, but not the trains. I think it's because the seating is set up differently and you can see the countryside through the windows, it's beautiful. Right as we walked out of the train station, we walked into Carnivale. We saw the canal, boats, face painters, musicians and tons of people. People were dressed in the most amazing costumes and masks. Some had really elaborate renaissance era costumes and they just walked around and pose so we could take pictures of them.
Other people were dressed up in funny outfits, we saw teletubbies, clowns, school supplies and little kids dressed up, they were so cute! We got a little lost trying to find our studio apartment that we rented for the weekend, luckly we found Jessie and she took us there. For some reason none of us could open the door, we all tried a million times and even asked our neighbor. We finally had to call the lady we rented the place from so she could come back and open it. She had to grease the door, I guess it sticks? It was weird... Molly and Jessie hung back to nap while the rest of us went exploring. One of the best part about Venice is that there are no cars! Walking around in Italy, you always have to watch out for cars, they tend to not stop...We wandered around, took pictures of everything and bought masks! Later in the evening we met up with the other girls and headed to St. Marc's Square to see the drag queen competition. It was pretty entertaining but once the sun went down it got really cold so we headed home.
Saturday we took the ferry to the glass blowing island of Murano. The ferry ride was pretty short but I really enjoyed it, you know how much I love boats! Unfortunately the glass blowing factories were closed so we couldn't see any being made, but we still had a really nice time strolling along the canal and going into all the shops. They also had really cool glass sculptures around the island.
When we got back to the main island of Venice, we all got our faces painted! It was so fun to feel like a little kid again at a carnival lol.
I had been trying to get in touch with my friend Kendall from SD who was in Venice the same weekend, but we were having phone issues. I only ended up seeing her for about 5 seconds when she was in line to go into the Basillica. I was bummed I didn't get to spend more time with her, but a quick hug and a hello was better than nothing! The girls and I had a delicious dinner together and went looking for a bar/club to hang out in. Venice doesn't have much of a nightlife, even during Carnivale so we headed home and had our own dance party in our room haha.
Sunday we packed up and did some more sightseeing. We went to the Jewish Ghetto and it was so nice to be away from the crowds and just enjoy a walk. After lunch and more wandering it was time to head to the train station. There was bumper to bumper traffic of people along the main streets, which you have to take to the train station.
It was a little stressful and annoying trying to navigate through all those people with our stuff, but we managed and got to the station just in time. I unfortunately didn't have a seat on the train, although I had a ticket. So basically how that works is I just hope that someone doesn't show up so I can take the empty seat. I wasn't so lucky and I had to sit on the floor the whole ride, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be though!
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