Ain't Scared of No Strike!

Nothing in Europe is as easy as it is in America, that’s for sure! Italy is no exception! Fridays are a main travel day for many Italians and us. Last Friday, in particular, the train workers decided to go on strike.  The strange part of it all is that it was extremely organized, with a beginning and an ending time! Unfortunately, these times were not going to work for us!

Instead, we decided to FLY to Venice. We had already made plans to meet up with our friend Katie (the one we saw in Rome), so we couldn’t cancel our trip, nor did we want to! I’m so glad we didn’t, either! Venice is AMAZING! It truly is what it looks like in the pictures! There aren’t too many tourist attractions here and we are just about museum and churched out, so we are using this weekend to relax and unwind before our last week of class!

So with the railroad strike situation handled, it was time to hit Venice! We immediately started walking around and shopping in the great glass stores. Venice is known for its glass that is made on the island of Murano. It’s absolutely gorgeous and there are a great variety of glass things to buy! Let’s just hope it all makes it home in one piece!

We ended our first night with a Gondola ride and serenade through the canals! It was fun because the singer was in another gondola and we had a caravan of a few gondolas all together! People were stopping to take pictures of us! It was so relaxing and absolutely unreal! It’s definitely a once and a lifetime opportunity, but you really only need to do it once in a lifetime!

After the ride, we had a GREAT pasta dinner (imagine that!) and went to sleep very early and extremely exhausted! Ready for the next day!