Friday, March 03, 2006
Sunday
Need breakfast – water wouldn’t be bad either, maybe some coffee. Bakery. Restaurant. Something. Everything’s closed! Oi. Anyway, made our way to San Marco Square. I remember Michelle showing me some pictures of her in San Marco Square with a bunch of pigeons flying around but it took me a few minutes, a lot of pigeons, and a lot of people feeding the pigeons to realize that this is what she was talking about. So Bon bought some popcorn kernels for a euro and we were on our way. Bonnie has a problem with animals crawling around in her hair so we had some good pics. I played as well, throwing the kernels in the air to get the birds moving and ended up with a good pic of one bird on my head. Next was the ‘climb’ (or elevator ride) up the campanile where you can see the entire city. Very nice. While we were waiting for the elevator to go back down, one of the bells started swinging – it was only a couple of feet above our heads – we have video.
What next? I think we went to the train station to get our tickets to Austria. Then went back to San Angelo Sq for some coffee outside. Somehow we found a place for dinner – wasn’t that great but the wine was good. Lucky for us the hotel, which was rather small, let us keep our luggage there for the entire day – it getting close to 8pm so we had to grab our luggage, get on the waterbus through the Grand Canal, and get to the train station. But we’re a bit early, drinks? Sure. Had a couple of the biggest beers that we had while in Europe. Next the train – we were supposed to have a 2-person sleeper car but they don’t have those on this train so they gave us a 6-person but, luckily, no one else showed up. The last couple of days were long with little sleep and the train ride was only about 4.5 hours to Innsbruck, where we had to switch trains so sleep was necessary. I think I slept the entire time. Bonnie didn’t sleep at all – nightmares of your last time in Italy?
Me with a pigeon on my head in San Marco Sq
Bon with a parrot on her shoulder.. no, wait, that's a pigeon
Some little kids playing with the pigeons
Need breakfast – water wouldn’t be bad either, maybe some coffee. Bakery. Restaurant. Something. Everything’s closed! Oi. Anyway, made our way to San Marco Square. I remember Michelle showing me some pictures of her in San Marco Square with a bunch of pigeons flying around but it took me a few minutes, a lot of pigeons, and a lot of people feeding the pigeons to realize that this is what she was talking about. So Bon bought some popcorn kernels for a euro and we were on our way. Bonnie has a problem with animals crawling around in her hair so we had some good pics. I played as well, throwing the kernels in the air to get the birds moving and ended up with a good pic of one bird on my head. Next was the ‘climb’ (or elevator ride) up the campanile where you can see the entire city. Very nice. While we were waiting for the elevator to go back down, one of the bells started swinging – it was only a couple of feet above our heads – we have video.
What next? I think we went to the train station to get our tickets to Austria. Then went back to San Angelo Sq for some coffee outside. Somehow we found a place for dinner – wasn’t that great but the wine was good. Lucky for us the hotel, which was rather small, let us keep our luggage there for the entire day – it getting close to 8pm so we had to grab our luggage, get on the waterbus through the Grand Canal, and get to the train station. But we’re a bit early, drinks? Sure. Had a couple of the biggest beers that we had while in Europe. Next the train – we were supposed to have a 2-person sleeper car but they don’t have those on this train so they gave us a 6-person but, luckily, no one else showed up. The last couple of days were long with little sleep and the train ride was only about 4.5 hours to Innsbruck, where we had to switch trains so sleep was necessary. I think I slept the entire time. Bonnie didn’t sleep at all – nightmares of your last time in Italy?
Me with a pigeon on my head in San Marco Sq
Bon with a parrot on her shoulder.. no, wait, that's a pigeon
Some little kids playing with the pigeons
# posted by Keith @ 3:28 PM 
