Of course you do.
It all began Wednesday night, when the four of us (Kristen, Caitlin, Brian and Dan... me...) headed out to Venice. We arrived at the airport, took a brief bus ride, then waited for our shuttle car to drive us to the hostel. Upon arrival we found what looked less like a hostel and more like a 4-star hotel. Art on the walls, gold everywhere, it was, for lack of a better term, stunning. With our own private room and bathroom, we lived like royalty for the next two days - albeit a bus ride away from the city center.
Venice was gorgeous, simple as that. The canals gleamed in the sunlight and the stone buildings seemed to grow straight out of the water. In the city center, in front of the HUGE church there was the famous pigeon gathering spot, so we spent almost an hour getting them to land on our hands. Surprisingly, it wasn't painful or even creepy to hold the pigeons - it reminded me of having a parakeet - a really big ugly parakeet with fleas.
From here, we moved on and continued to explore Venice - we met up with more Emersonians for a nice Gondola ride followed by Gelato and dinner. Fast forward a little to 10:30, when realized we had half an hour to cross the entire city to make it back for our shuttle to the hostel.
Damn, we were fast.
We went back to the hostel, slept and got ready for our mini-day in Rome!
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