Here is a couple pictures from carnivale in venice with some creepy individuals and the other is of the duomo in florence, which looked really fake but it wasn't. Also in the one picture you can see Guy trying to make up for the fact that he was wearing a girl's mask by drinking wine straight from the bottle. I however began my lenten promise early and decided to pass on the libations for the weekend.











I was going into carnivale expecting an Italian version of mardi gras, but that is not what I got. Carnivale was much more sophisticated and mature then I had hoped, but it was still enjoyable being in Venice. Our hotel was on an island, Lido, which was about a 15 minture boat ride from Venice so it made for some interesting rides home at night. Apparently, people in Lido are not very fond of foreigners as many hostess' claimed we'd have to wait 15 mintues to be seated while there were several empty tables not being used, but you'll have that eventually. We contimplated going on a gondola however it was about 25 degrees and it would have cost us about 35 euro. This weekend I will appease my mother and I will attempt to conserve my money and not travel this weekend, I believe the first weekend since I have been here that I have not gone anywhere on the weekend. We have some big weekends coming up as I plan on going to Dublin for St. Patty's day then hopefully either spain or greece for spring break, who knows where I'll venture next. I may wake up tomorrow and decide to go to milan tomorrow, well see.