Live From Venice!

[siamesa]

 It is rainy here.

Feels lovely to be off of the plane, of course, and back on somewhat solid ground.  We got to ride a water taxi from the airport to our apartment.  Siblings refusing to shut up/stop arguing, even though we're in the part of the vacation that Sister chose.  (I chose Paris, though I think I will prefer the two weeks in Scotland).

We're also facing the should-have-been-anticipated problem of nobody speaking a word of Italian- don't look at me, okay, I've been boning up on my French and got an A even.  

You can see canals and old buildings and boats out of the windows, and the living room in particular has a lovely view of a red roof and a tall carved building that I think might be a church.

Also birds.  We've heard horrible reports of aggressive pigeons, but all I've seen so far have been wet seagulls.

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[siamesa.livejournal.com]

I have had strawberry gelato already- yummy yummy yummy- and looked and windowshopped at a lot of the little stores. It was high tide when we walked around and the water came up almost to the stairs leading into our apartment- shoes got a bit wet. We should be visiting the Basilica tomorrow!