Verona and Venice

After class on Friday, Michelle and I headed for Verona and Venice (just the 2 of us). When we got to Florence to take a train to Verona, we found out all the trains were full, and no bus goes to Verona. We thought our weekend plans were crushed. So we got in line for the ticket counter and after waiting forever, the guy managed to find us a ticket for 12.60 euro! Which is realllly cheap. So we were in luck. The next problem: how to get to our B&B. It was outside of the city and we knew we could get there by bus, but which one and where it stops was was got us...Until we ran into a lady who was going on the same bus as us! She spoke no English what so ever, and thankfully Claudia tought us anch'io (me as well) so out of everything the lady was rambling about we knew we were in luck to find the bus. Our luck kept getting better and better when a guy who spoke English and Italian got on the bus, called our B&B, gave the bus driver directions, and told us he will tell us when to get off. How lucky is that? And here we thought our weekend would be ruined. Verona was amazing. We got up early to avoid the crowd as long as we could. Saw Romeo and Juliet's houses, and the wall where everyone writes Juliet letters. After a beautiful few hours exploring Verona on Saturday, we headed for Venice. Oh, but what do we run into??? RAIN. Back to having bad luck. We decided Michelle was the one giving us bad luck, and then my luck would pull through and make the good outweigh the bad, because just as we got off the ferry (you have to take those to get around Venice) the sun came out! Okay for maybe 2 minutes tops and never came out again the whole time we were there. But none the less, Venice was fun. We explored by foot the rest of Saturday when the rain calmed down and Sunday we spent at Murano Island, home of the Murano glass factory. We got a free demonstration of how they make it and did a little shopping! Thanks to Michelle's bad luck it was freezing and raining very hard and not to mention super windy. But thanks to my luck, we found amazing rain jackets that sheilded us from the rain and wind both! So we stayed semi-dry and got our glass. Our hotel was right off of the Academia stop, so it was right in the heart of Venice. So worth the extra money. Thanks to my luck we had a hair dryer, towel warmer and endless hot showers! (AND tv!!) So even though it was rainy we still were comfortable. All in all it was a really fun trip and I would love to see Venice when the sun will actually be out. I thought it was just thunderstorming really bad but when we got back to school they told us there was a tornado! It was nice traveling just me and Michelle, but being back at school is a reality check for finals and projects due this week. Last week of classes =)