Venice

Today is my first opportunity of posting anything on my blog for our Italy trip. Internet is not that available here, and I had to wait until we got to a hotel with wi fi access. So I'll summarize our trip so far:

Sunday-Monday, June 22-23

We met at 3AM at University High School and boarded a bus to Sea-Tac airport, arriving there at 8:30 AM. We then took off at 2PM for Paris, France. Our flight took us north over Canada and southern Greenland, and since it was the Summer Solstice, the sun never set the entire flight, even though we flew throughout the night and arrived in Paris at 8:30 AM Paris time (9 hours ahead of Pacific Daylight Time). Brian and I didn't get any sleep on the plane, so we were pretty tired. After a layover of 4 hours in Paris, we flew to Venice and checked into our hotel. After freshening up a bit, we went into Venice for the evening and enjoyed a nice walk around the town. Venice is unique, because the only mode of transportation is either on foot or by boat. THere are many charming shops, walkways and obscure little alleys throughout the city. We ate dinner in Venice and then at 9:30 PM, went back to our hotel on the mainland. BY the time we went to bed, we had been up for about 36 hours straight. Needless to say, we didn't have any troube getting to sleep that night.