Venice Day 3

This day involved walking around the streets of the city and looking for the right things to buy, going to the Doges Palace, taking a ride on a gondola and various other adventures. We began with a ride on the vaporetto past many gondolas ready for action on our way to the Rialto Bridge Once there, we found this hat for Benjamin but decided that this one fit better. Then we had to find a WC like this one. On our walk through the city, we saw this scene that seemed necessary for our album. Lunch was at a bar where everyone

was happy to be eating and Benjamin gave a water bottle concert to those in the bar and the adjoining pizzeria Next we went past the good gelateria where we saw this sign in Hebrew and past this unique place until we reached this store that sold Doges and this unique model (notice the photographic effects!). We stopped on the way to our siesta at a cafe where David's menta granita was the hit.

We began the afternoon's activities at the Doges' Palace where the interior looks like this and the view includes this not to mention the weird face and the statues of Atlas and Hercules We weren't allowed up the fancy stairs (since we are human) which are guarded by Jupiter and Neptune and so we had to go up the interior stairs but we did get to see the Bridge of Sighs from which we captured these views

from both directions and then from the Palace you can view out to the harbor in these nice ways

Next came the gondola ride. Our driver seemed to be in control which made all of us happy

This led to an orgy of photography including views on the boat

the church of the Madonna because she saved them from a plague that killed 1/3 of the Venetians and views of other gondolas

and of buildings along the canal

including the fanciest hotel in town and the place where a few Doges lived

with a mosaic made of Murano glass and the postal service and a bridge at the closed museum Suzanne had hoped to visit and the places where Lord Byron and Mozart lived. We turned at the Rialto bridge which we have visited before into a narrow canal that had buildings in the modern Venetian style and a movie theater playing M-I-2. One bridge was particularly hard to navigate before we got back and headed to our dinner.

After a few pictures at Harry's Bar we headed off to dinner where everyone was tired and hungry

Suzanne and David were quite happy and the waiter fell in love with Benjamin En route back to the hotel, we had what might be our last gelato in Italia