Venice!

Ciao!

Hey guys I landed in Venice yesterday morning around 3 am our time and it's been quite the adventure so far.  Working off of two hours of sleep I managed to make it to the hotel in Mestre - Venice which is about a five minute ride from the airport.  The hotel itself while small is quite quaint and beautiful.  I'll be adding a photo or two of it in a few seconds.  Regardless, Italy is awesome the Italian people are quite nice for the most part and most speak english, however I try to use italian to the best of my ability and this one woman at the train station yesterday pretty much shut me down when I tried to ask for a round trip ticket and told me to speak in english... guess I butchered it *sigh*.  After a quick nap a few students who are also in the program and myself adventured first to an Italian trattoria where we got REAL ITALIAN PIZZA and I got some Perroni on draft (YAY ITALIAN BEER).  From there we decided to take the train to St. Lucia - Venice which is where most people associate Venice with, this is where they have all of the water ways and gondola's etc.  While there we got our first gelatto of the trip!  I decided to get passion fruit to be a little daring and it was amazing and definitely didn't disappoint what so ever.  Anyway that's it for now guys, I'll be heading to campus in about six hours (12:30 pm here) and from there I will be uploading the rest of my photos and add a new post about campus.  Thanks for reading!  Miss you all!

this is the airport in Frankfurt, Germany and the crazy bus we had to get on to get inside the airport.

 this is inside the Frankfurt airport it was ridiculously clean and very nice

 this is me, paige, carolina and taylor at the Venice - Marco Polo, airport only a few of the many CIMBA students I have and will meet thus far =)

This is the front desk of the hotel we are staying at in Mestre, it's called Hotel Piave and it's relatively inexpensive and completely exceeded my expectations for like 25 Euro a night per person.

These are peoples apartments behind the hotel, I thought it was amazingly beautiful so I took a picture haha but yes VENICE IS SWEET!

this is Venice St. Lucia at sunset this is Carolina, Maggie and Taylor at lunch at a local trattoria

 my first meal in Italy! Beer and pizza yay! this is Maggie drinking her aqua con gas (carbonated water)

 this is Maggie Carolina and Taylor waiting with me for the Train to take us to the Island part of Venice (St. Lucia)

 this is one of the narrow walk ways in St. Lucia one of the waterways where the taxi boats take you through

 one of the bridges that connects different walkways

 some of the houses in Venice - St. Lucia Carolina waiting to decide if we want to spend 100 Euro on a gondola ride (I THINK NOT)

 Venice - St. Lucia train ride out Me, Taylor and Carolina waiting for the Train

random church and the view from outside of the train station in Venice - St. Lucia