Day 34: Venice and Florence

Well today was a beautiful, sunny, and warm day in Venice. it was the complete opposite of the day before. I saw two completely different Venice's in my time there. The rainy day Venice and the sunny day. I spent from 9:30 until 2 walking around sunny Venice, taking in the sites and taking photos. One of the coolest thing I have done so far was in St. Marcos Square today. there were people feeding th pigons, so i got some awesome photos of that, and I remembers that I had some bread in my bag. so i fed the pigons. I even had some on me. At one time I had four on me. It was so awesome. I spent around 30 minutes in the pigon area. I gave these asian ladies some bread, they were so happy they got to feed the pigons that they asked to take a photo with me. made me laugh and rather happy. I then got on a train to florence. One thing i didn't know is that with high speed trains in Italy, you need to reserve a seat, which I didn't know. I was told I had to pay 18 euros on the train, which I said I didn't have, so i was kicked off a train, which was fine, I just got on the next train. I met up with my friend Brian who I met in Venice around 7 and found my hostel, which is kinda far away from everything, but is still really nice. then we went out for dinner. I had some italian pasta and we shared a good bottle of wine. and now I sit here in my hostel checking facebook and writing my blog.
I have now been here 5 weeks. which is just CRAZY. I have four more to go. over the half way point now. but still a lot to look forward to, Rome, the south of france, spain. shall be good.