We got up pretty early to have breakfast before we had to be out of our rooms at 9:00am. Once we got off the ship with all our luggage, we found a bus that would take us to the train station in Venice. We had to lug all of our luggage across this steep bridge. These guys with little dollies kept coming up to us asking if we wanted help. Mom was a little freaked out giving them our luggage because she thought they would just take off with it haha we finally made it across and into the train station. Our night train didn’t leave until 9:00 that night so we found a place to store our luggage at the train station, bought our train tickets, and went out exploring the city.
Dad bought a selfie stick! There are guys everywhere selling them so Dad bought a red one haha he kept getting nervous that his phone would fall out of it into the water though.
The first selfie with the selfie stick.
Me taking a picture of the first selfie with the selfie stick.
We found a guy to take us on a gondola ride. He had the striped shirt on and the little hat haha Al and I didn’t have any spaghetti to share on our romantic gondola ride but it was still super cool. We had like a 45 minute ride around the city, out into the main part and throughout all the little alley ways.
Al and I had a very romantic gondola ride. We were missing our shared bowl of spaghetti. Next time, I guess.
We then started walking and shopping. We did a lot of shopping, like a ridiculous amount haha we bought Italia jackets, including one for baby girl! And we found a Disney store which is a must for the Kemp family. We stopped for gelato several times on our way throughout the city - it was our goal to get gelato 10 times that day. We all got masks and Dad and Cory found some cool quills and notebooks and stuff. WE LOVE VENICE!
We found a place to eat inside where it was a little cooler. We were the only people there. The ceiling was covered in bras (???) and the walls had records and old concert posters and stuff on it, it was a cool and interesting place. We got pizza (obviously) and water. Dad had a hard time with the no ice thing haha and the gas/no gas water (gas means club soda, no gas means just regular water).
We did some more shopping then headed over to the main square. Mom and Jess hung out on the steps with all of our shopping bags while Dad, Cory, Al, and I ventured into St. Mark’s Basilica. It was under construction so you could only go into parts of it but it was super cool and pretty.
We made our way back to the train station. We hung out under a bridge for a while. Cory and I were laughing at the boats that drove by that said, “Stops where emotion start” - obviously they used google translate and just decided to trust it blindly and put it on their boats rather than getting a second opinion on the translation haha Mom, Dad, and Jess ventured out to find some snacks and water for the train ride. Al and I played some cards on the disgusting Venice ground. We laughed at pigeons while Cory commented, “I love mocking lesser intelligence.” When Mom, Dad, and Jess returned, we started to head back to the train station which was a good thing because the weather started to get bad - it started to rain when we were in the train station. We got our bags from the storage place and just hung out. We found some wifi and some chocolate - all you need while hanging out in a train station in Venice.
I have the coolest dad ever.
Our night train pulled in around 8:15. We found our car and loaded all of our luggage and crap into it. The car was supposed to sleep six people. However, with all of the crap we brought with us and acquired in Venice, there was no way we were going to sleep all six of us. The worker guy on the train came by and offered us another car so we could all sleep which was super nice of him. We spent the first few hours together.
We were able to get a few hours of sleep. It was at least better than my last night train experience - I was able to lay down and not have the stupid latter smacking my head every two minutes.
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