Day one: we got off our overnight train and walked through a mile and a half of narrow, winding streets to the hostel. Nobody answered the door so Michelle and Andrea went to find a pay phone. Meanwhile, a woman came down from the apartment to bring down the trash, so I jumped at the opportunity to ask her about Casa Lagana. She only lived in the same apartment building as the guest house but offered to call the owners for us. Long story short, we really couldn't get in touch with the hostel owners but the woman we stumbled into gave us the keys to another guest apartment down the block. Weird. But quite lucky! We spent the day meandering around the narrow roads through town and window shopping [My favorite: a shop whose hours are "I OPEN SOMETIME"]. That night, we went back out and saw the water seeping up from under St. Mark's. It was really cool to see but pretty terrifying at the same time. On 100 nights per year, the square floods (when tides are high and the sea is rough), sometimes even so much that gondolas can paddle through! The water was only just peeking through the cracks of the big cement blocks, not even enough to touch my feet over the top of my sandals.
Day 2: The islands. We got a day-long ferry pass and visited Murano (saw a glass-blowing demonstration), Burano (walked around and took pictures of all the brightly painted houses), and Lido (went to the beach and found big pasta dishes and gelato for dinner...are you catching on to the kinds of food we've been eating in Italy?)!
Day 3: went to see the inside of St. Mark's (pretty, but rather overrated..maybe I've just seen too many cathedrals this trip?) found some delicious veggie pizza, went to the Rialto market for some souvineers, and headed for the train station to catch our ride to Milan.
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