Venezia :)

Last weekend, we paid Venice a little visit.  Initially, we went to Venice because one of my roommates Tory's uncle set up so graciously a dinner for us there.  Little did we know, we'd all fall in love with a city. Venice is completely on water, and even though I knew that, I didn't realize there really were no cars!  It's completely run by either walking or taking water buses or water taxis.  We stayed at Hotel American and it was beautiful!  Here's the view from our room, casual.

We then ate dinner at Linea Dombra, VERY big thanks to Uncle Vito.  He has us all set up.  I literally felt as if I were royalty.  They watched our every move, never let our wine go past half full, and even told us how to eat to get the most flavor out of our dishes.  They initially gave us menus, then immediately took them away and put together something completely on their own.  Each course got better and better.  I am so glad they took the menu's away because we would have never ordered the things that we ate that night.  Our first course was this type of tuna mousse which in theory sounds repulsive but it was to die for.  Our next course was all raw fish, literally all. raw. fish. 

Our next course was a fettuccine with crab which I never wanted to end.  Next was the main dish, it was grilled vegetables, with creamy potatoes and the catch of the day; sea bass.  Describing this food is not possible because it was just that good.  I'm drooling right now actually.  Lastly, was the dessert.  The dessert.  It tasted like HEAVEN.  If you know me, you know I am not typically a dessert girl, carbs all day for me, but this dessert melted in my mouth.  It was a fluffy vanilla mousse with strawberries on it.  Once again, I am drooling.  This meal was easily the best meal I've ever eaten and it lasted about 5 hours; a 5 hours well spent.  5 hours seems like a long time but it's typical in Italian cuisine.

The next day, we spent walking around Venice and really taking it all in.  Usually we are constantly on the go, but while we were here we just chilled out and did whatever was relaxing to us.  Between the four of us, we bought out the entire city (sorry Dad) but the Venetian glass jewelry was too good to pass up.  We also took a gondola ride that day.  If you do one thing in Italy, make sure it's taking a gondola ride in Venice.  Our driver took us on the small canal so that it was quieter and just more fun.  He told us that in Venice, you have to go to gondola school for 2 years, one of which is just to learn how to stand!  His gondola is comparative to our cars in price and everything.  During our little tour, we saw where the Italian job was filmed, one of my favorite movies! Also, the gondola we were in was the one Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp filmed in The Tourist.

Something is seriously up with my pictures, I can't post the gondola ones! :(