May 17, 2022
We went to Scuola Grande di San Rocco today, Tuesday, as promised earlier. And it was open making a movie. Only actors and wannabees were allowed in. No regular people. Well, fiddle-dee-dee!
Across the campo is the Leonardo da Vinci museum of Venice, and since that was our number 2 destination for today, we took it in. It was a fun visit.
One of the neat things was the construction of a lot of the machines he had drawn – a military tank, a water screw, his experiments with flying machines, and others. There was a reproduction of a portable bridge he designed and in front of the full-scale model were pieces of wood that looked a lot like Lincoln Logs. Thanks to all of the houses and forts that Luke and I built with ours, I was able to build the bridge (many people fumbled and failed).
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| The big one is theirs, the small one is mine. |
We had a nice lunch and some delicious gelato. Probably back to the Scuola on Friday when the movie is over. I really want to see all of the Tintoretto works it houses.
We shopped in and out of many tourist stores out and back. Mom is looking for a bottle stopper. I’ll let her tell you that story. And I bought a 100 Euro mouse pad. No, not a mouse pad for 100 euros, but a mouse pad that looks like a 100 euro note. It was 2 euros.
A small bit of excitement when we returned to our flat. I plugged my phone in to recharge in preparation for my nap (for personal recharging) and it wouldn’t charge. I tried a second cable. No joy. I moved to a different outlet and voila. Who knows. But that is enough excitement for the trip. I mean I’ve thrown suitcases over muddy sidewalk constructions and run to catch trains. I don’t need an uncharged cellphone.
Well, a quite day from my perspective. I’m sure Bonnie has her unique points of view to share.
TTFN
Love,
Dad/Pappy/David
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So where do I start. How about the fact that I now have no clue to the time or day of the week. I can figure out the time at home by subtracting 2 but the minutes will never be right and to get the time here I add 4 but the minutes will never be right. Now to the day of the week, according to my watch it is currently Tuesday June 20. For some unknown reason when we returned from our walk my watch reset itself to June 19, sometime before midnight. Life is so much fun!!
Well, back to the adventures of today. I arose about 6:30 after sleeping well. He got up about 7:30. He did some computer and phone stuff. We had decided to go out for breakfast so he had a shower. I decided not to take a bath so I washed my face, combed my hair and flossed and brushed my teeth. Dressed and we were off. We had seen a café near the one farmacia and we were going to walk by today and it is always busy so we were headed there. We each got a croissant with vanilla cream. He had coffee Americana and I had brought some orange water with me. Very good.
After breakfast we headed off to our first stop, we were there on the day the book said it would be open at the appropriate time. Outside there were all kinds of people sitting and the doors were closed. According to the man outside it was closed until Thursday or Friday ( not sure which) because they were making a film. Big Whoop!
So we went across the square to the Leonardo Da Vinci museum. Great place. We spent more than an hour exploring the two floors. It contained his paintings, writings and on the second floor many of the inventions he had sketched and drawn but never built. In the gift shop I bought a pencil box with Venice scenes on the sliding lid and 12 pencils inside and a sharpener. Really cool. I used it this afternoon to color one of my dot to dots I have made so far this trip I have a book that has 95 animals and I have completed half of them.
After we left the museum we found a small café where we got a sandwich and a coke to share. Then, we found a gelato place and had dessert. We shopped in a lots of stores looking. We went to the dollar store and got a Euro mouse pad. Then, we went to the coop to get a few things. Then, back to the apartment. We had a perfect walk with no detours.
Back at the apartment we took off all our clothes because it is in the high 80's and we were soaking with sweat. Then, it was time for a whole bottle of water and a coke zero. Now naptime. He slept and I couldn’t. When he got up, I went and laid on the bed and tried again. This time I slept for an hour. Then, I got up and we chilled, with him napping off and on the couch.
Finally about 6:30 we went to supper. Lasagna and salad for me, chicken and FF for him. He had coffee afterwards. Then, we decided to take a short walk in the direction we had not gone before. We found another beautiful church, from the outside, and we will visit it tomorrow because it was closed. Nice outside this evening. We had a good day.
You should have heard the rain last night. It was a real downpour. It rained all night.
But this morning it was beautiful and has been beautiful all day.
Miss you all. Love you all. Mom, Granny and Bonnie
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