These were some of the great balconies and windows that we saw in Venice, Italy. I love the textures, colors, and shapes.
You can just feel the "lived in" nature of these pictures. Personality explodes from them. So beautiful.
After breakfast the girls sat out on the hotel's dock waiting for us to finish and begin our day.
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).
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.
Venice was one of the highlights of our trip. We love Italy. If you have been thinking about going to Venice, don't put it off, go now! We were met at the airport by a water taxi. We did a shared water taxi with one other couple and it cut the cost in half. The water taxi took us directly to our hotel. I totally recommend this. We used a company called Venice Link. It was also so fun and you felt like such a jetsetter cruisin' in the speed boat.
This was a beautiful street near our hotel where we ate lunch twice (best pizza I ever had).
This was the view from our little balcony in front of our hotel. Across the canal is the Ca d'Oro Palace.
We took a gondola ride just about sunset. It was so beautiful and calm. It is worth every Euro. You have to do this in Venice, so don't cheap out! Set aside the money just for it. 
