Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Day Nine:

Today was officially our last day of our Europe trip. Tomorrow we are just going to be on the train from 8am till 9:30pm from Venice to Kaserslautern. We all leave for Scotland the day after tomorrow. 

After a freezing, and I mean freezing night of trying to sleep we put on our jeans and jackets and when we finally got outside we realized it was boiling hot. Venice you are weird I'll tell ya that much. We went to breakfast where apparently I traveled half way around the world just to get rid of the mosquitos in Chicago to have this happen: 
We decided to your Venice seeing that it is an island and we can walk just about anywhere. We saw a couple of churches but unfortunately I was wearing a tank too and we all were wearing shorts so we couldn't go in them. We did manage to sneak some pictures however: 
Other than this church we basically just looked at them from the outside and catching the most common pictures of Venice: 

This last picture is something I've seen before many places around Europe where a couple will take a lock and lock it around a bridge and throw the key away representing their love for one another to never go away:
Our view from our hotel window wasn't too bad, besides the fact that every canal in Venice looked like this one:
We got really tired and decided to take a mid afternoon nap and why not next to a place that looked like this:
We figured that it would be our last night of our trip so we decided to spend a little extra on dinner. We were NOT dissapointed at all! Plus we had gelato after but when in Italy, have some spaghetti: 

All and all this trip has been amazing and we are so incredibly blessed to have had this opportunity. The guys I have been with, Alex, Brandon and Calvin are incredible! I am so thankful for meeting them. We thank you God for everything you have done and for keeping us safe! Next stop on my list is University of Glasgow, Scotland!