The Trip Begins...

Ok, I know I have been home for a few days, but this jet lag thing is no joke! The nights are the worst, the boys wake up at 4 am and think it is play time! I will post a few posts a day for the next little while until I have the whole trip done..

On to Venice!

First of all, thank you is not even a big enough phrase to let the Beck's know how much we appreciate going on this trip. It was incredible. But let's start at the beginning. The night before we left, I was packed and ready. Berk had just gotten an ear infection and Braden had some little flu bug so I knew we were gonna have a fun time. We left our house at 4:30 am on Wed. the 9th. We flew from here to Philly and had a three hour layover. It worked out well because the kids were able to stretch their legs before the long trip. The flight over was long, almost 9 hours but the boys slept off and on and were super fliers.

Once we landed in Venice, cleared customs and got our bags we headed to our ship. It was really wired that our taxi was a boat, and that along the way we passed all kinds of other boats. A DHL boat even went past. Once we got on the ship, ate lunch and got settled in our state rooms it was time for a nap. While the wiser ones of us (Russ & Bill) explored Venice, we chose to sleep. But we did get up in time for dinner and headed into Venice that night. We did a little shopping but didn't stay long because we had left Braden aboard in the kid zone. The next day we spent the entire day out and about in the city. The St Mark's Square was were all the action was. Tons of shops, gelato (yum), shops, gelato, shops--ok you get the picture. By evening we were back on the boat and headed to Croatia.

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