Venice

We went down for breakfast at the hotel and it was in a very quaint courtyard and we were given apricot filled croissants, breadrolls, cereals,juice and fruit with the thickest hot chocolate or coffee.The setting was heavenly.We wandered through the lanes to the Rialto fish and produce market then crossed the Rialto bridge and on to San Marco . Every where were shops of venetian masks and murano glass . By the time we got to San Marco we had to sit in the shade and have a drink.It was very hot and we got in a long queue to go into the Basilica san Marco .We then went into a nearby glass gallery and were able to sneak in to the glass blowing demonsatration using a Rick Steves travel book The kids enjoyed watching the artisan make a vase and a small horse. The heat had made us all think about gelati so that was our next stop.We then managed to get quite lost trying to find our way back to the hotel finding our way back to the gelati shop befreo we got seriuos with the map.It didnt help that the street names didnt match some of the map names.Jim and Joel watched the soccer while Carlie and i went wanderign in a different direction than we had gone this morning.not much was open and we figured everyone in Venice must have been in watching the soccer.We did see a wedding party with all the guests dressed in white .It looked fabulous. We all went out for tea but couldnt find a place we liked more than the night before so we went back to that restaurant After tea we sat beside the canal and watched the sun set.