March 20th 2014,
Well I’ve been up for officially a whole day and then some, which isn’t that bad. Made it through a major setback. aka little miss Dana forgot her passport. We were making our way through Atlanta on the eve of rush hour and Dana asks me if I have my passport…I check all good. We get dropped off around 4:45 pm everything is looking good, we go to check in and behold Dana’s passport is in the scanner from the day before. I frantically call my parents, they have to then battle upstream rush hour traffic to get us the passport before 6:30 or we were going to be SOL.
Luckily they somehow drove back and forth in Atlanta traffic on 75 in less than two hours. So a raise a glass for them. We made it on to the flight without a time to spare and in seven hours made it to Paris where we caught a connecting flight to Venice. I’m hoping the passport delay was our one hiccup, because from the Venice airport to our hostel it was wonderfully easy and calm then we nabbed some wifi and we are trying to stay awake. Our hostel is not too bad, working hot shower, two nice beds, and a place to call home for a couple of days while we explore. So we checked in our hostel, and then to battle the drowsiness wandered around the Venice Mestre area.The real heart of Venice, is a bus ride away. We found the train station, a couple little shops, and also that most people in this area do not speak as much english as we thought, so we’ve gotten pretty good at the point and nod method. We found a nice little grocery store, bought dinner for €3,80 and now just relaxing and getting ready for the exciting venture into the heart of Venice.
fino alla prossima volta,
Amanda
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