May 30, 2012

Today we met outside the hotel at ten o clock.  We went to Insula, which is a city preservation construction company.  They work on preserving the canals, bridges, and buildings throughout Venice.  While they do preservation work, they also to repairs on sections of canals and bridges whenever they need them.  We were release for the day after this, it was about noon. Some people got lunch at a grocery store, it didn’t look good, so I opted for a piece of pizza instead.  Sumner, Brady, Jack, and I walked back to the hotel, it took us a while.  We got lost for about an hour and a half, but we finally figured it out. We went out again, Sumner and I went to the UPS store, Sumner had to ship some stuff back.  It is pretty pricy, 86 euro for 3 kg worth of stuff.  We walked around and found the Rialta bridge and found some pretty cool shopping around the area.  We eventually made it back to the hotel and I caught up on some blogs and booked my room for Amsterdam.  I paid for Joel and myself and it was only 230 euro for three nights, he is paying me back.  We are staying in a dorm style room with 10 beds in there, it should be interesting.  Hopefully we all get in one room, that probably will not happen though.  Morgan, Sumner, Kyle, Cameron, and myself decided to rent a private taxi boat and get dropped off way up the canal somewhere, not exactly planned out the best. The taxi was extremely nice though, wooden boat with leather seats.  We got dropped off at a park and hung out there for a while.  We had a hike to get back to the place, but eventually figured it out.  We hung out at the hotel and got caught up on some work I needed to do.  That's all for today.

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