venezia!

sarah and i got in to venice yesterday after suffering through a fairly tedious and long train ride here from milan. we took a water taxi to the hotel (it's called hotel splendid!) our room is actually pretty nice. even the toilet paper wrapping is replete with 4 stars on it ;) there is an airplane sized tv in the bathroom so i can watch larry king while showering. and it's pretty much the size of my cottage that i had in dc. how fabu is that? we have a nice corner room but it can get fairly loud through out the night as we are right in between piazza san marco and the rialto bridge. which also puts us in the high rent district. so for example, tonight we paid $50 for fucking spaghetti. clearly, i'm still a little bitter. how many cans of spaghetti-o's could i have purchased for $50 back home? i'm going to find out.

yesterday we did tons of shopping - i found a cute bat necklace with a scrappy diamond in it that now i'm not so sure i like. damn me and my impulse shopping! venice is certainly all about excess. sarah paid $200 for a pair of very cute shoes this morning. and she bought a matching frauda (fake prada) for $35 bucks to boot!

we did an ok cruise of the venetian islands - to murano, torcello and burano. murano and torcello were completely worthless but sarah and i are going back to burano tomorrow for more shopping. it was so cute - see the pics below:

on the rialto bridge close to sunset:


a cool facade while we were in the water taxi to the hotel:


the docks in murano:


from the docks in torcello:


the cute and colorful houses of burano:


the boys in venice have been cracking us up. our waiter at lunch asked us if we wanted to take him home with us to the states to which we replied with a robust and resounding yes! he was so adorable! and tonight when we walked in to the hotel with our gelatos (gelato is absolutely necessary, especially when it's 37 degrees outside) the front desk man said "oh thank you for my gelato" and took mine from me. then he asked how many kisses i wanted to trade for my gelato and i told him 500. he said "oh, 12 hours worth? all night long?" and sarah and i just about peed our pants. he insisted he was up to it but i was insistent on having my gelato back (it's really that good) perhaps tomorrow.... ;)

we actually decided on tuesday night in milan that all of the hot boys in the world have been shipped to italy. needless to say, we have not had even the slightest lack of eye candy or ogling opportunities! we may never leave if they boys keep all this flirting up! it's really quite marvelous :)

today i got a little fed up with my flat iron not working with my adapter this week so i decided to try to plug it in with the converter the hotel provided to us. the buttons were flashing and it started making a weird buzzing noise. unfortunately, there was an abbreviated version of my london hair dryer electrocution and i got zapped fairly seriously. i suppose the old adage that beauty is pain really is more than appropriate :( LAME!

we went to a really cute bar called bacarro tonight - i think we'll make a return appearance there tomorrow as well.

off to sleep... MWAH!

tiff