Venezia, City of Water

First of all, let me just say that it rained when I was in Venice, a lot. I know, I know, A.) I shouldn't be complaining about rain because I'm from Oregon where it always rains and B.) I was in Venice, HELLO!?!?! Why should I be complaining. Anyway... apart from the soaked clothes, and shoes, Venice was beautiful. The rain even made it more beautiful, all the colors of the sky blended nicely with the buildings. Venice is a city of bridges, there are no streets, no cars just lots of little passageways and canals. It was very dangerous traveling through the tiny streets, walls on either side, and everyone having umbrellas, we were very lucky no one lost an eye. We spent 3 days and 2 nights in the wonderful city. After getting off the train and taking the very crowded waterbus to our hotel our first stop was the Piazza di San Marco, one of the most famous squares in the world. The nice thing about Venice being a bunch of islands because it made it impossible for boats to make it into the city and therefore they were unconquerable till Napolean finally figured it out. During the time before their defeat they had their own government and rule apart from the Catholic rise in the rest of Italy. So the Church of San Marc is a basilica not a cathedral, which basically means there was no bishop. San Marc's is actually the person chapel to the doge, who lives next door in the Doge's Palace. For the life of me I can't figure out the name of the bridge to the right but there are lots of famous paintings of it with people holding umbrellas by Prendergast, which I really like (so does my Mommy.) This was day one of Venice but I'm going to leave it as a to be continued till next time...