First day in Venice

I arrived in Venice a little tired and worked up after the puffy jaw incident (see previous post), but still hit up the town right away anyway. I headed in with Bix and Jeff and went wandering around for hours and went to the Per Rialto, the Nuovo Ghetto and San Marco's square. The Nuovo Ghetto was intense - the place where the word "Ghetto" was coined and aparantely the first known Jewish Ghetto in the world. It was crazy to walk in there and imagine that so many people used to have to live in that cramped area. All in all, an excellent start to Venice.

Then we got back... and there was a HUGE Contiki group at our campsite, doing some sort of crazy sumo wrestling with tons of people cheering, it was nuts. So we assumed we were going right to bed, instead we watched the crazyness, drank some wine and then danced on the tables in the bar until 2 in the morning. The next day, somehow I was actually feeling a lot BETTER than before, so I guess my sweet dance moves must have made my jaw get better!! Sweeeeeeet.


Campsite


The boys and I on the way to Venice


Me on Per Dell Academie


Sweet


Gondalier


Me on Per Rialto


Jeff rockin' a beer in the street


Gelato


Boats


Me at the entrance to the Ghetto Nuovo


Inside the Ghetto


Barbed Wire


Holocaust Memorial


More of the Holocaust Memorial


Artwork


Synagogue in the Ghetto


View from outside the Ghetto


At San Marco Square


At San Marco Square


Headed back to the campsite


Sweet boats


Hangin' out


Sumo Wrestling at the campsite


Crazy Bar


Workin' it