Venice, Italy: July 31st

Well folks, this is Venice. Because our boat was docked at Venice for the start of our trip, we took a water taxi to St. Mark's square, and boy were we excited :)

I had all these thoughts in my head of reliving scenes from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but my fantasies were crushed when we got off the taxi and saw this picture above. Crowds and crowds of people with no one single fedora or bullwhip in sight. Not even any guys with fumanchu mustaches and red fez caps on their heads :(

Since we were in Italy, one thing we really wanted to try was their Gelato. Good thing that one of the first things we saw once we got off the boat was a gelato stand.

Here's me enjoying my pistachio and strawberry flavored gelato.

And Yoojin enjoying hers :)

Here's me watching a man painting on a street corner. I don't know what he was drawing but the man knew how to draw really straight lines with his paintbrush. It was amazing.

Here I am posing in front of St. Mark's Square. Yes, those are Crocs on my feet. Yes, I look like a dork, but they sure are comfortable.

I told Yoojin to pose and this is what she gave me :)

Yoojin posing in front of one of Venice's famous canals with Gondola's passing by in the background. We were thinking about riding one ourselves, but you would not believe the crowds of people waiting to catch a ride, so we passed on it.

Here's another picture of me and Yoojin posing in front of some church at St. Mark's Square.

Afterwards, we got back to our boat and we stood on the deck as the boat was taking off. It was actually really romantic to stand on the deck of the ship and watch Venice pass by in the twilight. Too bad we fell asleep part way through it :P