so this post is going to be a doozy. just a heads up, its ganna be long
so, we start the trip meeting at AUR for the cab to pick us up at 5 15 to take us to the airport. well we wait, and wait and call and they say that we have a cab for tomorrow morning. well after some clarification they send us a taxi and while we wait i was like, duh! Jen ordered the cab for 5 15, well here in Europe that means 5 15 in the morning, not at night. so that is why they had us for the morning....but not biggie, just thought i would add that
so anyway, after the 1 hour flight(jens second flight! and amazing views of hte coast of italy) we land in venice. take a taxi to the hotel, deal with the very stubborn annoying, obnoxious dude at the counter and get to our rooms. hotel was pretty ok. we were in like this seperate villa so we had a common area to go with our shared bathroom and rooms(we shared the bathroom iwth the boys so it worked out fine) but ya so the girls decide to go to sleep becuase we had a 8am train to verona the next day, but the guys go out.
so we get up at 6 get out of the hotel a lil after 7 and get the 8 o clock train to verona. when we get to verona we try to figure out where juliets house is and hop on a bus. well when we try to get off only ellen got off, jen and i were stuck on. so we got off at the next stop and met in the middle. and wound up goign to this coffee place for capiccino, but ellen and i decide to get hot chocolate. and that was when i was introduced to the amazingness of chocolate calda(italian hot chocolate). this hot chocolate kicks nestles butt. i mean hard core kicks it. it is like drinking melted chocolate, but not too overpowering, just enough to be AMAZING! o and according to jen this was the best cappucino she has had yet(he sprinkled cocoa powder on top!)
so we walk around towards Juliet's house, stop on a really pretty bridge take pictures of the river going through Verona and really pretty churches. than we stop upon a bakery that had marzipan animals. not only did they have marzipan animals but they also had a million amazing looking desserts. i held my ground, but Ellen and Jen caved and got marzipan animals, which they enjoyed very much. so after our second little snack we are walking around in the heart of Verona and just happen upon Juliet's house. of course we were looking for it, but i just turn my head, and i was like "guys, we're here!" and let me tell you, i was not disappointed. to save money we didnt go inside to the museum, just went to the courtyard, but i so happy. i loved that we got to see her balcony and the little gardens and of Julietta. Well we all took our pictures near the balcony and with Julietta(and for some reason every one grabs her boob, we dont know why, but because everyone else did it we did too! lol) but anyway after taking a million pictures of the courtyard we go to the little tunnel to get to the courtyard where people all wrote like love notes and K+J=4ever, type things and it was actually really pretty. so what were we supposed to do, of course we had to take an artsy photo shoot(most pictures are on Jen's facebook, i have a few) but we were there for a good 30 min just taking pictures in diff poses and having a blast. after we decide too many tourist groups have passed, we move on to find Romeo's house!
on the way to Romeo we get called over by this guy in this shop were they are stitching names into things(those were all over Verona) but any way he goes tell her your name and she will do it for you! well skeptical me was like no this can't be free how much, and he insisted it was free, which it was. so we got our names stitched out all prettily(i'm making it a word, leave me a lone) but then of course we go in the shop and for 6 euro you can have a pot holder embroidered. well, i just had to get it. I got a heart shaped pot holder with D,L,J,M,R, on it (my families initials). I loved it because everytime it snows, or we are on the beach, my dad draws a huge heart and puts our initials in it. i love when he does that, its been something he has always done and always give me the warmest feeling, so of course i felt that again when i saw it on this heart(just a nice little piece of home with me almost).
well after our embroidered gifts, we run into none other than Garibaldi, well his statue at least. so we took some pictures with him in his little plaza thing. we saw a beautiful building area that was just really pretty. than on our way to romeo's house, find juliet's tomb. it was surrounded by gothic looking bells and a very gothic looking buliding. they were beautiful(pics on fb of course).
but anyways. we finally find romeo's house, which was converted to a very expensive restaurant, but still it was fun to see it(marked by a sign with a romeo quote) . so we move on from romeos house and find dante(his statue) in a cute little park!
of course we take some more pics than head back were find a court with old ruined tile floors underneath that we could see. and as we wondered back to the train, we eat at a restaurant where jen got a very little mermaid-esk fork(hence the pics of us "brushing" our hair with the fork)
well we then took the train back to Venice. and i think that Venice might be a second post. this one is long enough :)
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