Venice

Today is our first whole day in Venice. We arrived last night after stopping in Padua and seeing a beautiful chapel that you can only enter if you are de-humidified first. It is VERY hot and humid here, but bearable in the shade and with a breeze from the canals. Right now I'm in an internet cafe with Angie and it is pretty expensive and I only have like 5 minutes, so I can't write about everything that has happened. But Venice is very beautiful and we were all excited to get here. Today we had mass in the basilica of St. Mark and then went on a long walk to the train station so Steph and Angie could buy tickets. After that we had lunch and shopped for murano glass jewelry - very pretty! Tonight we are going to have dinner on the Grande Canal and walk around some more! Hopefully I'll be able to write more later, maybe in Paris! Bye for now!