Italy day 2: Venice

Well, it,s a been some time since the last post and I kept telling myself I would do it... But then I didn't. Sorry about that! Well anyhow, mom arrived in bcn about a week ago and my bad luck was passed to her when her bags didn't arrive with her at the airport. We spent the majority of the next day at home, from 9am til midnight waiting and calling hourly for this bag that was always "going to be there any minute" only for it to never come. Let,s just say I was not impressed. I got on the phone the next morning and let the morons at the airport have it about what is acceptable service and what is not. In the end I went to work and mom took the bus to the airport to get her bag herself rather than spend another 12 hours waiting for potentially nothing. So that got solved. Then the water in my apartment went crazy, starts leaking a liter a minute in the kitchen and my roommate was content to let it do that for 3 days til Monday rolled around and someone would come look at it. I went upstairs instead after about 18 hours and asked one of the neighbors to show me where the valve was to shut it off. But then obviously we had no water - for anything at all. Theis meant showering at the gym and me being kinda cranky about the whole thing which could have been easily solved 4 days earlier. But oh we'll, such is life I guess and worse has happened. So! Yesterday we left for Italy and we made it to the airport where the owner of the bnb where we are staying was going to pick us up. He is so nice and friendly and the house is just on the mainland about a twenty min bus ride to Venice. The garden is gorgeous and when we arrived there was a mama duck and her little ducklings all standing by our door! So cute! We just had a quick walk around the village, got bit by a bunch of Mosquitos then stopped for a delicious pizza at the recommended restaurant. Today we got up early and had a great breakfast and then went straight into Venice. We got a waterbus ticket for in Venice which allows us to take rides all over the city by boat through the canals and also to the little islands around. It got really hot in the afternoon, around 30 while we were doing a free walking tour I found online. But it's very beautiful and easy to get totally lost! I had lasagna for both lunch and dinner today but still haven't tasted the real thing I don't think. Before coming home we went to the island lido which is very long and skinny and just off of Venice just to eat dinner and see what was there, and it is soooooo gorgeous! I may actually like it better than Venice in some ways because it is very green and has amazing architecture with a great view of the Venice skyline. There are less canals but they still have some. I can't wait to put up some of the pictures when we get back:) Anyhow,that's the quick version of our 13 our day sightseeing, tomorrow should also be great! I'll write more then. X b.