Wednesday, October 31, 2007

We're officially homesick and ready to go back home (last blog in italy)

We did absolutely nothing today and just relaxed in our hotel room, hahaha. Guess we're tired out from all the walking and being a tourist. Totally done with italian food, gelatos, cappucinos, and saying "bon giorno", "prego", "gratzie", "ciao", "nove" and "cuante". Tired of smart cars, scooters, old buildings, cobblestone streets, churches everywhere, and peddlers selling these freaky looking silly putty mr potato head things. Tired of watching cnn live (only english speaking tv), futbol on every single channel, bidets, no ironing board nor iron in our hotel rooms, no clocks, no. We are ready to go back home. I'm going to famous daves once I get back and have me some good ol american bbq. Get sloppy and ishhhh. Signing out here in italy.
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Chinese horoscope placemats at a supposedly english pub here in torino italy

Hahahahaha, hilarious. Its in italian too.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

I hate trains

Our train from venice to turin has a train change here in milan. Half an hour of downtime at the station and another couple more hours on the train. Another half hour of seeing the same tabacchi, same forexchange, same bar chef express, same farmacia ads, and same scam artists trying to act like they're employees and helping you with your baggage for 5 euros, for the last time. What's worse, we couldn't figure out which platform our train to turin is on cause the big screen kept it blank. We did hear some announcement about torino and just followed a storm of people to the right platform, so we assume. Hopefully we're on the right train as I type this blog and we did ask a couple of passengers if we're on the right train and they said yes, but I hope they're not saying that to fool us. Wish us luck.
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Monday, October 29, 2007

We saw a comedic play at the theater here in venice

Its called carnival. Its basically a history lesson about venice. Funny, cool effects with lighting and video, but it kinda dragged on too long. At least we got free food and champagne out of it. I feel cultured now, hahahaha. Holler!
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Here's some pics with me and the birds at piazza san marco

Crazy experience......I had to wipe myself with some hand sanitizer afterwards, hahahaha
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This blog is for my cousin maricel

She recommended Gelato fantasy and I must say, it was great, very owsum for me. Linh had chocolate mousse and I had a combo of tiramasu and egg mousse.
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we're exhausted from shopping at murano italy

We went to an island off of venice called Murano that does traditional glassblowing. We bought a lot of murano glass artwork and we are all spent.
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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Chinese dinner in venice italy

Its weird hearing chinese people speak really good fluent italian but still can't speak a lick of english, hahahaha
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Look at the size of this beer

1 liter of italian beer. We took a break from all the walking around and decided to refill with alcohol. The brits next to me were cheering my couragious efforts. Holler!
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We went on a gondola ride around san marco italy

Pretty cool though a lil bit expensive. 80 euros for 35 minutes but well worth it. Saw mozarts apt, some of the back canals, and went on the canal grande. Our driver is funny cause he kept serenading "chuck norris" to us, hahahaha.
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