Venice...in 6 hours?!

Venice in 6 hours....

Venice is one of the most beautiful places. That's why trying to cover the multiple islands in 6 hours was not so great of an idea. Lisa and I got really lucky by getting a train to Bologna and Rubiera without waiting even a minute!

We got out of the train station and were amazed by the view of the Grand Canal. Heading for San Marco's Piazza we went for a 30 minute walk because we didn't want to spend money on the boat. 

And really it's crazy because cars are all replaced with boats here. There are taxi boats, UPS boats, Gondolas, bus boats, normal speed boats-it is all so cool. But this form of transportation that Venice ran on was new to us as well as pricey. We got a slice of pizza from the cafe and set off to find San Marco absolutely astounding!

The San Marco's Basillica is the church with the multiple domes while the tall thing on the right is the San Marco watch tower.

We took a few pictures among the pigeon paradise in the middle of the Piazza, but we were running from them as they dived from the sky that we couldn't get any decent pictures. Maybe Lisa has one or two; my camera is dying.

Then we wanted to see the Doge's Place. We got a museum pass for four museums in the Piazza but we literally are so guilty to say that ...uhhh it was really boring. The art was wonderfully beautiful but we took a fifteen minute roundabout and knew better than to tire ourselves through the 87 rooms awaiting us in the HUGE museum. The doom was foreshadowed in the faces of the tired, pissed and unhappy British family sitting in the Museum cafe who had just finished the museum tour. It was too funny and sad at the same time, Lisa and I had to run out of there.
Anyways our next goal was the MUST SEE Peggy Guggenheim Museum. A collection of her favorite paintings and sculptures, her museum competes with her husbands: the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Well, actually it's probably one of the SMALLEST museums but it was great because Lisa and I bought the audio to the Museum and listed to how the abstract art of Max Ernst was always seemingly depicting naked women and symbolizing his affairs etc. It was really interesting to become experts on cubism , surrealism, realism and all the isms...Ugghh I'm so distracted... I'm trying to kill a mosquitoe that is eating me alive as I type.
Anyways we spent loads of time going through that museum and we didn't really have time to explore a lot of the backstreets of venice though we did have a good main look around the bridges, cross the Grand Canal by a big bus boat, and buy some painting/post card stuff. It is such a charming place, especially in the piazza with music playing and pidgeons flying; I must say they really do make the beauty of the scene....when they are not flying at your head, two inches from your face.
Lisa and I learned a lesson in the end however, do not procrastinate. You would have thought thousands of late night cramming for tests and projects would have done the job and taught me to be smarter. But no... we didn't buy our tickets back from Venice and we missed the train we needed to take. Instead we took a train an hour later and then realized there were none to the final destination we needed... it was all very complicated and scary, but we ended up transferring to Modena and waiting for Lucca to pick us up. Lisa and I had a seat by the corner of the street. I started to teach her the southern accent, because we were talking about the movie Sweet Home Alabama. "...Fried Chicken and Apple pie" we were laughing out loud while we perfected our southern accents... then all these old men (in their 50's i'd say) went up to the girl next to us and started being shady....she had boots to her knees and ripped stockings...shoulda knew.. Lisa and i started being as unprostitutely as possible talking southern some more to scare the men and quickly walking away as they looked our direction...ugggghhhhh... it was disgusting.
Lisa and I were kind of really disturbed but then as we were shuddering I asked her if she watched "Pretty Woman." You never know, maybe this girl is gonna have her fairy tale ending like Julia Roberts...or at least, lets just think of it that way.
okay anyways we got home safe. And Lucca gave us a scare because it took us 10 min to start the c.ar once he got here...I'm so tired. Today was an adventure. I am glad we went to Venice, but next time I gotta have more time hahha
aite good day and good night ...whatever the time is where you are or I am.
<3 Em