Tea for Two

I had a feeling that my pictures were gone from the day before, so Mom and I went for a walk in the morning. I was able to get quite a few pictures. We also found a really cute park not far from our place. This woman posed her dog to take pictures. It was so cute. As we were walking, we ran into Andy and he didn't recognize us at first. We had a good laugh after that. This is the  Basilica di San Marco . After seeing all of the beautiful masks, I now really want to go to a masquerade ball. The color of the water was amazing. I love all of the colors of the buildings. This is a monument of Giuseppe Garibaldi . He's known as the George Washington of Italy. See! I was really there! This is the Venice Arsenal and was a shipyard founded in 1104 by the Eastern Roman Empire. This is the entrance to the Arsenal. After our walk, we got all of our luggage and took a boat taxi to meet up with Chris...

Unfortunately, my SD card wasn't working and I lost all my pictures on the camera from this day. It's really unfortunate because I took some really amazing ones. I told Jonathan that he now gets to take me back to Venice so I can retake them. Luckily, I still took a few pictures with my phone. In the morning, Chris and Annie left for a quick visit to Switzerland to see Annie's host family she stayed with when she was a teenager. Andy and Amy went exploring on their own around the city. Mom and I had a slower start to our day. I had the best room in our Airbnb . It was on the top floor and had it's own bathroom and terrace. It was amazing! Finally we ventured out and had pizza for lunch. We then strolled along the Grand Canal and Mom got a few paintings done by local artists. It was a glorious day! We found a place to sit down and eat our gelato with a beautiful view. This is their garbage boat. They pick up garbage everyday. We en...

The day before Mother's Day, I was finally facing the wide variety of my thoughts and feelings. It was a mistake. (I wrote them out  here .) I should have been going through them little by little throughout the week instead. That got me into a really low mood. So, Jonathan took action. He told me that he was going to take me away for the weekend and I got to decide where we were going. While he found a sub for our Primary class, I started looking at beaches here in Texas. Texas is not known for it's beaches, but it is one of my favorite places thanks to my mom sharing here love of the beach with me. We were packed and ready to go within a couple of hours. We were already planning on going to the San Antonio Temple that day, so we spent a few hours there and then got some more supplies at Walmart. After that, we made our way down to Victoria, Texas where our hotel was. It was already dark so we couldn't see much except orange colored light in the distance. It kind of lo...