Rob, Chris, and I woke up pretty early to go to the Island of Murano to watch glass blowing. We grabbed some pastries off the street and headed towards the water. We had to get vaporetta tickets ahead of time though, and while we waited in a very inefficient line, it began to rain. We got our raincoats and I took some Tylenol again. The trip to the island on line 42 took a very long time (probably 45 minutes), but once we got there, plenty of people were waiting and willing to direct you to their glass blowing factory. We found one which was free. The system must work great for them because after fifteen minute demonstration and explanation, everyone just goes and buys glass from their store. They had some very affordable glass, but I decided not to get any.
When we left, it was pouring. I got pretty wet, even with a raincoat on. The trip back didn’t take as long because we got off at the Piazza San Marco. We went inside St. Mark’s, which was beautiful with all of its gold mosaics. We went outside and watched children with birdfeed in their hands get attacked by swarms of pigeons. Rob had two land on him. I guess they just liked him because they stayed on him for a while.
We went to go eat lunch but made the poor decision of going to a pizza place owned by Asian people. Not that I don’t think an Asian person could make a good pizza, but when I’m in Italy, I should probably get one from an Italian person. The pizza was by far the worst of the trip (even worse than anything back home). We took a gondola ride across a canal for 50 cents. We went to the church of Santa Maria della Salute. It was beautiful on the outside, but nothing special really on the inside. It began to rain while we were there, so we just chilled out for a while.
We walked back to the hotel, and we all took naps. When everyone went to dinner, however, I stayed in because I was not feeling very well. I needed to rest.
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