Peace, Love, and Hot Dog Cakes

FYI, that's the wake forest house right on the Grand Canal. Pretty sweet, eh? Anyways, basically the main thing that has stood out about the past two days is that it's been HOT AND SWEATY!!! Man you just melt out there when you go out. But, its still cool, and thank God I have a long time here so I can do a few things a day and still get a lot in. I haven't done all the St Marks Square stuff, but we did take another day and got lost (Friday) and had quite a fun time doing so until we were starving. Later we went up to San Giorgio Maggiore which is a benedictine abbey/church on its own island. We went up in the belltower and got awesome views of Venice and all the surrounding islands. We also had a nice dinner with a few of the house guests (The law professors, some Germans who were really cool, and a wake & venice law student). That was a lot of fun

Today I got up early and had breakfast at the hotel next to mine (Hotel Belle Arti). It was nice to have all you could eat cold cuts for breakfast and some tasty fruits. It's a really nice hotel, I'll have to get some pictures tomorrow. We then went to Murano, the island that's famous for making lots of glass. It was fun - we went with 2 of the Wake Law students Duncan & Darrin who we had a blast hanging out with all day. Then we went to another church on the way back on the Vapporeto. In Venice, since they don't have automobiles their public transportation are these Vapporeto's, or water buses. Nothing special, but it's kind of fun to ride them. It was a little hike out to the island and back (probably 45 mins one way) but we did have a fun time and there is good people watching on those boats. Took a nice siesta this afternoon and now we're getting ready to go out with Duncan & Darrin for dinner and maybe go out to a bar afterwards. At some point we need to make a plan so we can get everything in that we want to do. I'm pretending that it's going to cool off this week but I know it wont. Anyways, Ciao!