OK so yesterday I got Carol interested in going to San Maggorie Island which is just across the canal from Venice to a church that Rick Steve's said did a Gregorian Chant mass everyday M-Sat at 8am. So she got out of bed at 6:30am and showered, got herself fixed up- and then flicked the light at me (because of course I had my iPod on listening to music all night)- and told me to get going. In my defense this was about 7am- I did get ready- but then reminded her that we really shouldn't start the day out without something to eat and I did have a jar of Nutella sitting there calling out my name (hey its Europe- you eat bread for everything, so you've gotta make it exciting)-
Getting to the boat to go to the island involved us walking probably 20 minutes to San Marco square and if you've ever walked in Venice, you know there's no such thing as a straight line- so we set off- you could already feel the humidity in the air, and you could tell it was going to be a hot day.
Venice was blissfully without crowds at 7:30am- and I have to say its one of the few times I actually enjoyed walking around there. UNfortunately, however, by the time we got the boats it turned out that the boat to the island had JUST left the dock- and the next one wasn't coming till 8:19am (the mass started at 8am)-
Carol wasn't too happy-- up early, fixed up- practically running across Venice in humidity and we miss the boat-
I did get a couple of good shots tho! This cruise ship went by while we were waiting- MAN those things are HUGE!
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