Italy, Venice and Florence Day 7

Today we traveled from Venice to Florence. I did a lot today, and for this I am very proud! I love the hotel I picked for Florence - again, I have my own little room, which is nice. We all share a bathroom, which is only a problem when Darin does his daily 48 million hour routine. haha.

This sign was on the Vaporetto - the water taxi, and translated means, Please remember that this seat is reserved: (for - in order, A woman with a large abdominal tumor, a woman with an undeveloped Siamese twin, a man with unusual armpit hair, and Fred Astaire). I sat there anyways.


I took this after my tummy was full of yummy Florence homemade Gelato. Yum.

Here is daVinci, and that thing he's holding, that must be his code.

The two of us.

Galileo - my bathtub hero.
I just liked this...

Santa Croce
Dad's photos:

Our Venice Hotel :-) What a nice place. Could've used an elevator, but I won't complain about that since I had to walk everywhere else too. My wheelchair wouldn't have done us any good in Venice.


Rialto Bridge
Us in the hotel's "garage" in Florence.

This is why we got Gelato in cups... from another place.


David replica - We'll see the real thing in a couple days - and I'll be just as obnoxious as that cruise commercial. Just kidding, kind of.

San Antonio - Patron Saint of the Lost (Luggage). We thank him daily for the safe return of our luggage after that crazy 3 different airline mess it took to get us to Europe.

I saw this, it was awesome, and yep.

I'm watching hot guys without shirts play soccer. I guess the soccer was the reason Darin could pause to smile for the camera.

Look how little the Smart Car is!

Doing what I do best... and no, I didn't buy that purse. It was too many Euros to count.

Darin's Camera:

Father's Day in Venice - we went out to dinner and then had awesome Gelato :-)

Me and Daddy

Dar and Daddy

Darin took this awesome photo of the land of the lost locks. We're not sure what they are doing here, but it makes a cool photo.

I'm really excited to go to the Ufitzi tomorrow - ART! And me there seeing art! And everything about this continent makes me happy - thrilled even (except that shitty pizza we had for dinner, thanks to me and my lack of understanding what the woman said when I asked for directions in Italian. Go me. That was the same place as the bird eating the cone, and the birds also attacked us while we were eating. At least it was really cheap - and with the money we saved on food, Dar-Dar bought a nice leather Italian wallet. I am still searching for a purse. In that store I could have gotten a 900 Euro coat for 1/2 price, minus tax, and he would have thrown in a free leather coat for Dad - but we decided that 400 Euros is still too much for two leather coats - b/c that's $650. We're not looking to spend that much on anything).

Well tomorrow we will continue the hunt for a great (cheap) leather purse. And I will try to forget about the 900 Euro coat that was to DIE for. And I will try to forget about the 110 Euro dress that would be the best thing EVER. I'm going to forget about these things and buy postcards.

Will update tomorrow from the Land of Leather.

Lots of Love,
Carla

Europe Day 6

VENICE!!!

My photos: I only took a few, so these are the best two.

I loved this translation.

Gondolier's Hat.

Dad's photos, because his photos are awesome:

San Marco

Gondolas

Me and Dar-Dar.

This guy gave us a discount on the gondola ride b/c the guy at the hotel knew him, and I spoke Italian with the hotel guy, and this guy, and it was fun.


OMG this was so cool. This guy made glass stuff, and we WATCHED HIM MAKE IT. We watched him make a little gondola, so of course we had to buy a little gondola. He also made the necklace I am wearing in later photos.
Us.
Yellow Chairs.
Us. (not the glass necklace).
Us by our to die for restaurant. This was after Dad and Dar ate there and before I ate there with them this night.
Princess Carla - this was Dad and Darin's bed.... I got the little room that was posted before.
Pretty Venice!

Just another reason Mom, you would hate Venice:

Us and the bridge of "size" - haha. Yes, glass necklace that awesome glass man made.
Us and the gondola ride.
Hat.
Church of the Waldense (spelling?) - you know, those relatives that Grandpa always talks about. It's an ancient church or something, so it's famous or something, so Dad took a picture because we're related, or something.
Thing on boat.
Dad and the bridge of sighs.
Me and Gladly's hat.
The end.

Europe Day 5 (sooo long ago I can barely remember now)

Okay, now that I've seen the pics, I remember what happened on this day. Lot's of sleeping.

This first photo was taken while I was sleeping in the car.

Darin took this right after Dad woke me up so that I could witness crossing into Italy. Yay.
Um, something in Venice. Yep. This is what Venice looks like.
View from my room in Venice.

Back track - these are Dad's photos. I didn't take any on day 5 - I was asleep.
This was the view from our hotel in Austria. I know, Right?

This is me pretending to be happy that we're in Venice, but really, I just wanted to go back to sleep. And I felt sick from exhaustion. Yay.

This is something near something in Venice. Dad took it, don't ask me. I was just trying to survive this rainy, shitty, craptastic day. Oh, and did I mention it was also cold? Freakishly cold?

A Bridge.
Gondolas, etc. in Venice.
Our hotel.
Me in a brief moment of alert-ness in my little room.
The end.