Venice: One of My Favorite Places in the World

This posting will strictly be from a non-educational or secular standpoint in that Nick and I went by ourselves this weekend to Venice without the rest of the class. We will not be attending the optional trip next weekend to Venice with the rest of the group. Let me start off by saying that Venice, Italy is the most beautiful place I have ever been to in my life. Although I would have loved to visit the Jewish ghettos in Venice that the rest of the group will be doing, I feel as though going to Venice is one of the best decisions of my life. The fact that Venice is a city on water is one of the most amazing and unreal things I have ever experienced. The canals are the means of transportation in Venice and the only way to get to different places is either walking over various bridges, or taking water taxis. Aside from the beautiful canals, the architecture was also amazing. The S. Marco Plazza, with the famous Venetian bell tower, was something that I could not wait to experience because of my two trips to Las Vegas where I stayed in the Venetian Hotel. Nightlife in Venice is exactly what they say it is which is nonexistent but the beauty of the place overwhelled me to a point where I didn't even need to go out that night. One thing I would like to discuss is how the only night that we were in Venice the plaza flooded just a little bit which seemed normal to the natives. This actually depressed me when I saw this because this amazing city one day may be totally underwater. The locals actually seemed to enjoy this event and they began to play in the flooded water and what seemed to be celebrate in the water. Overall, Venice is a place that is hard to describe in short but the pictures above say it all. Venice is my favorite place on Earth up until this time in my life.