Venice (time with sissy)

Well lizard arrived safe and sound into venice airport on Saturday evening.  Truth be told I'm sure that I was just as tired as her even though she just was en route for the last 18-20 hours.  I got her and we hurried up to the water taxi which was leaving in about 20 minutes from the airport.  Finally upon getting into the boat to take us to the main island (so to speak) we were able to catch up and go over her trip and more.  I texted her boyfriend and mom to let them know that lizard safely arrived.  I was so excited to have someone with me and not just someone but my sister!!

After a couple of stops on the taxi we got to the one that was closest to our guest house for the next two nights.  It was already really dark out and if anyone of you have been to venice you know it's like a maze.  Yes literally a maze.  I knew that the walk to our place was around 5-10 minutes but that's if you take the right route.  Well let me tell you again thank goodness for Google maps and T-Mobile!  We found our place without a hitch but finding the guest out reception person was the key!  We waited for a while and after about an hour I was able to find good enough reception to call this dude and come to find out he was in the door next to us!  Both of us tired and just wanted some bed to sleep!  

The next day we awoke very early and got out into the square at the first thing.  We got some amazing pictures because there weren't those tourists hanging out in the square feeding those damn pigeons.  Really who wants to do that?!!  After checking out the Rialto bridge and st marks square we ventured for the sea side and found a place that sold 5 euro cappuccinos.  Not bad considering the place a couple steps away was 8.50!  Geez.  Anyways we went cafe hopping so to speak and walked around some more.  I found a place that sold really cheap traditional Venetian masks so I got a couple that I will later put into pictures frames.  Two masks for 5 euros not bad.  We finally were hungry enough for lunch around 3pm and found a cozy cafe and sat outside with the sun beaming on us.  It was really warm in the sun but no sun it was a tad chilly!  

This city is pretty much about walking around and getting lost I told my sister.  Literally.  We also went into a few shops and looked around.  Nothing major to see and since we were both tired and jet lagged we honestly just chilled a lot.  We got up again early the next day and had a walk about the city before our bus was to leave at 2pm (or so we thought).  We had to take a city bus and walk for about 20 minutes to get to our bus stop for Ljubljana.  Before we did this we enjoyed some gelato.  Lizards first try!  So exciting!  We got to the bus area with plenty of time and I asked a few hotels and shops around that indeed this is where the bus company to Ljubljana picked us up.  After waiting and now quite a bit of time after the scheduled departure time, I called the bus company and turns out they didn't even have a bus that left at 2pm although my email and ticket says that!  Well trying to make a bad situation into a good one, I knew that our first nights stay in Ljubljana was a loss but now we needed to stay the night again in venice.  We ended up finding a decent hotel near the bus stop and we're now scheduled on the bus at 11am the next day.  Honestly, my sister and I were just happy to chill.  We didn't want to go back into the city and see the masses of people we just hung out at the hotel and then my sister wasn't feeling well so it was actually for the better.  

Next morning, we enjoyed a free breakfast at our hotel and ventured to the bus area and it was there nice and early!  Thank goodness!  Onto Ljubljana we go!  Country number 78!