Day thirteen: Venice, Italy

This post is being published five days late. We apologize for being so behind, we've been a little tied up (yes, yes, such a hard life we live).

We wanted to take a trip to one of the surrounding islands. Our hotel offered free transportation over to the island of Murano every morning at 10 a.m. Water transport isn't exactly cheap around here (7€ per person each way) so we took advantage of this. Murano is a short 1.5km water ride away from Venice, it's famous for its beautiful glass making. They took us over via private water taxi which usually costs about 100€ per hour! The ride over was beautiful.

We were ecstatic to find out that we also got a little special preview! These are master glass-blowers, or maestros, they are extremely talented at what they do. 

That man made this glass sculpture in a matter of three or four minutes. This was nothing compared to what we saw next... Unfortunately we weren't able to take any pictures at our next stop. We were taken upstairs to a private show room, our jaws dropped to the floor! All one of a kind pieces ranging from 1,000€ to well over 500,000€ some chandeliers weren't even priced. We made sure to keep our hands to ourselves. It was glass heaven on earth. 

We explored the island walking in to pretty much every store to admire the glass work.

We headed back to Venice and took a very long siesta. After we finally dragged ourselves out of bed, we did a little exploring of Venice at night. Just as beautiful!

Not really sure how we're not 500lbs yet. 

Goodnight, Venice.

Cheers.