Venice and Mediterranean Cruise

So, yes I did come home from my cruise, but then I had another small trip planned to the east coast to visit my son and family, and so there was this brief interruption so to speak!

I have been really busy getting caught up on my 'household' chores, and now I am back in my studio. For the last few days over the weekend I have been uploading pictures off my camera san disks to the computer. That takes a long time, since I'm learning this new process for my Canon T2i. The EOS Utility program as some of you are probably aware, uploads the original and at the same time makes as additional JPEG file which is nice. However, I'm not that digital savvy and so yesterday after I'd been going thru this process for awhile, the program decided not to make the second JPEG image. I don't know what button I pushed if any, but at the same time I know I can make that second image later. Enough of this I want to talk to you about Venice!!

The long flight over to Zurich was just that: LONG! From Zurich we then flew to Venice on a much smaller plane and much more comfortable one too. All three of us conked out for the whole flight and felt fairly rested when we landed. From there we were met by a guide of sorts. We had to lug our suitcases over to the 'taxi'. So, I'm not thinking that far ahead...still tired...and so the 'taxi' was a 'water taxi' because Venice has no streets for cars, right!? So we load our luggage onto the water taxi, and off we go at sunset. It's about a 20 minute ride. Well, it was the water taxi ride from hell. We had a young driver who apparently was in a hurry and not ONCE did he look back at us to see if we were still in the boat. Once we got to the city limits he HAD to slow down and this was when we were able to really look out and see our first sights of the city of Venice. It was sunset and the colors were pretty awesome to say the least.