Venice, Italy

November 14-17

(dara) Jim & I are in Venice for three days. I have never been to Italy (aside for the brief entry over Slovenia's border). I love Venice! Jim, when are we coming back to Italy?!?

On a crazy note, Venice has been flooded for the past couple of days. It has only flooded for a couple of hours in the a.m. though. It is rather wild! We have been walking around on these small tables throughout San Marco Square. But honestly, it does not affect the beauty of the city in any way!

There are plenty of great churches, paintings, marble & wood carvings, and architecture. We enjoyed seeing Leonardo da Vinci's models yesterday. That was pretty cool. What a genius! We also checked out a special exhibit of Salvador Dali's work. My favorite paintings were The Madonna of Port Lligat, Soft Self Portrait with Fried Bacon, Gala's Christ (three dimensional), Fifty Abstract Paintings ... , Women Lying on the Sand and The First Days of Spring. Fun overall!

We are going to enjoy one more fine Italian meal tonight and a glass or two of wine. Then, we are off to Munich on an overnight train. We then will catch another train to Frankfurt at 6 a.m. Our flight to Mumbai leaves on Thursday afternoon from Frankfurt. We have a six-hour layover in Mumbai. Then, our flight to Delhi finally leaves Friday at 10 a.m. Should be a long couple of days! :)