Onward to Venice!

The next morning we met up in Milano at the train station. We had some time to kill before catching the train to Venice.
We checked into our hotel which was nice and directly across the street from the train station - Venice Maestre. After we checked in Jason went and bought tickets for us to take the train over to the islands. That sign on the bottom left had some very important information but we didn't see it and the ticket lady didn't mention anything!

The most important thing to know in Italy is that you have to have your tickets validated at the yellow machines. Well Jason passed out the tickets and we hopped onto the train. We didn't know about the yellow machines because all of our tickets up to this point have been reservations. There was the ticket guy standing right by us on the platform and got onto the train with us. Well he informed us that our 13 (1 euro/tickets) were not valid and we had to pay the fine. Which was 50 Euros per ticket and paid in cash!!!! Needless to say we were targeted and very upset! The only good thing was that we only had to pay for 7 and not 13!

That little incident did us in for the rest of our time in Venice. We were only there for one more day and it seemed one day too much.

Anyway, here is a cute picture of the cousins, Isabella and Katelyn!

They had a gondola ride. I don't think it was a romantic one for the lovebirds.

This is a great picture of Kecia and her family!

This little guy, Sergio, was a trooper! He did great! He had a rough start with the time change and sleeping but he finally caught up and I think his mom and dad finally got some sleep too!