Venezia

We went to Venezia with Massy's Aunt & Uncle (Guido & Francesca). We left Annalisa at home w/ her nonni. Guido & Francesca are excellent hosts and tour guides. They know the city well and took us all over. They used to live in Venice and still live very close but on another island, Lido. They showed us several places including , a bar Francesca worked at when she first moved to Venice at age 14 (she had to leave her home at 14 years old and go to work--she didn't even get to go to high school), the school Guido's mom used to work at, an apartment they used to live in, and several other neat places. We had a great lunch at a very quaint place, stopped for gelato and coffee. We walked a lot and normally it would be a piece of cake except for the fact that I'm pregnant so I have to go the bathroom nonstop and bathrooms are definitely not accessible like they are here in the US. At any rate, it was a lot of fun and I'm glad we were able to go see Venice and spend time with them.