Last day in Venice

Well up this morning, packed and ready to go by 10:30.  Another early start day!!  Still having night time hours awake but seems to be better.   We are off to shop no bargains but an Italian leather belt is a necessity right?  Then we continue to the vaporetto stop, buy tickets to Burano. This is the lace isle. I get a full day ticket when probably should have just gotten a one way since they don’t seem to be checking.  The students and tour groups have arrived in Venice. St. Mark’s Square is packed.  We are advised to just walk to the next stop and take the correct boat since the one we want doesn’t stop at this stop.  We are getting really good with Venice as long as my google maps continues to work and my phone doesn’t run out of battery

Finally, we get to Burano. Of all the isles we have seen I think it is the prettiest.  All of the buildings are painted a different color.  Lots of street vendors since it is a tourist area. The lace is truly beautiful.  I wonder if we have tossed our pieces of lace that could have been saved?   But can’t worry about that now.  We escaped without buying anything.  That in itself is truly amazing.

Another thing we have mastered in Venice is to find the bathroom. Usually it means having to sit down and have a glass of wine but desperate times call for desperate measures

Today is the day we embark on the cruise ship.  We were able to get our stateroom as early as 1pm. The ship does not leave port until 11pm. After our vaporetto ride back to the hotel it is now almost 6pm. So much for checking in early. Although when you are late there is no line and  no waiting. The only problem is we have a dinner reservation for 6:30 and they haven’t delivered our luggage. We decided to go anyway.  Forget about changing clothes. There is no formal night but most passengers change into something a little less casual than how we were dressed.  It was so quiet at the specialty restaurant there was no problem getting a table.

After dinner we went to the little nightclub type venue we hung out at on our first ocean cruise 18 months ago and the same duo was there, most amazing part was they recognized us. Couldn’t quite remember names but the faces and cruise details came back. So it was a fun night. Hopefully staying up late will help my poor sleeping the past 3 nights.