Venice

The first few pictures are of our hotel and hotel room.  We were fortunate to have a view overlooking the canal. Most of the pictures of boats and gondolas are pictures from our room. The green boats are the garbage (trucks) boats, it was amazing the way they haul bagged garbage from the streets along the canal, then the garbage gets lifted onto the boat and crushed like an actual garbage truck.
The city is beautiful with amazing architecture, beautiful churchs.  People are very friendly and most speak perfect English.
We had a tremendous thunder storm last night...as a result you can see pictures of how easily the canals flood showing St. Marks square flooded.
Also...many, many doggies and NO dog poop.  Go figure.  I wish we could've taken pictures of all of them.  I guess we are home sick for our kids...2 legged and 4 legged.
The markets and shops were filled with beautiful Murano glass, masks, feather pens and so much more.
Just one last entry about the pigeons....they are disgusting...you can pictures of them in the square..people actually let them land on their arms.  YUCK!
Tomorrow we're headed to Florence.  Will update our blog after 2 days in Florence.  Ciao!