Venice

We finally found a hostel that has free internet in Amsterdam! Our pictures of Rome are on the hard drive from the laptop that broke :( so we are beginning with our pictures of Venice and when we get back home, we'll get the pictures of Rome up because it was incredible. It was Stephen's favorite place.

So Venice is made up of 118 islands in a lagoon and we walked through about each one of them. It was such an interesting city and filled with so many shops. Definitely a shoppers dream . . . it was hard not to spend a lot of money. Unfortunately we did not go on a gondola ride because it would have cost us about $120 just for 40 minutes.

We went by ferry to two separate islands outside of Venice. The first island was Murano and that is where they make all of their glass objects and do all of the glass blowing. We watched them make a penguin and a carnival person. It was pretty interesting to watch the whole process. The second island we went to was Burano and basically every house was painted a different color.