Water Good Time in Venezia

Venice is a city that is built on the water, so I guess it is only fair that we got to spend a lot of time on boats. What fun! We started our journey into Venice on a big car ferry, well not as big as the ferry that goes to Victoria, but still pretty big. When we were on the ferry we saw lots of other boats on the water, including this very cool pirate ship - KT and I were very glad that the pirates didn't attack us!
When we got into the city itself, we saw some pretty cool buildings and things, including this weird iron bird. We thought the ball of umbrellas was pretty fun and colourful.
The next boat we got to ride on was a gondola. All gondolas are black, even today, because a long time ago there was a law that said all gondolas had to be black so that their owner's couldn't try and show off their wealth by making their gondola really colourful or ornate. The gondola ride was very fun, even when our gondolier started singing!
After our gondola ride we went up a really old clock tower. It was built in 1499. From that time until 1998 there was always a clock keeper who lived in the clock tower, with his family, to keep it running. Can you imagine having that clock as an alarm...it goes off every hour!
We had a very busy day so far, so we decided to go and have some tea at a restaurant that has been operating for 289 year! Yes, it opened in 1720. Oh, you might have noticed the cool souvenirs KT and I picked up in Venice. They are Carnevale (carnival) masks. There are some very beautiful masks to buy.

After our long day in Venice, we took a traghetto (a water bus basically) back to our hotel. Here we are hanging out (literally) on the balcony. We were just enjoying the sunshine.
Another place we enjoyed the sunshine was at the beach. We couldn't stay too long, so we just built a small sand castle with our friends before we had to catch the ferry back to the mainland.
And here we are, enjoying the ferry ride back from our beautiful hotel in Lido. Lido is the beach resort area we stayed at while we visited Venice. Our next destination...Pordenone. That's all for now, QT.