Venice, Italy -Day 2 (last day)

The winged lion, the symbol of Venice at the entrance to St. Marks square.

After breakfast the girls sat out on the hotel's dock waiting for us to finish and begin our day.

We walked over to St. Marks Square where the Doge's Palace is. We were scheduled to take the Secret Itineraries tour. Inside the courtyard of the Doge's Palace.

Entering through the Gold Staircase. We took the secret itineraries tour and this was the last place pictures were allowed to be taken. It was super, super hot that day and we did not take any water into the palace with us. Big mistake. It was about 30 minutes longer than it had to be (we had the slowest speaking tour guide in existence and she wasn't nice to top it off). We all felt dehydrated and had to go back to our hotel just to recover. I thought at one point Katie was going to pass out. The tour was interesting, especially the bits about Cassanova, but it was not riveting. (probably because all I could think of was how we needed water).

More of the Doge's Palace.

Right outside the Doge's Palace is St. Marks Basillica. We did'nt go in because the line was over 2 hours long and we were not feeling good as I mentioned above. But it was beautiful on the outside.

You can really see the asian influences from when Venice was a thriving port between Asia and Europe