Getting ready for trip to Venice Italy

 Come along to Venice, Italy with me!  You can watch this blog for photos from my trip to Venice, Murano, and Burano, starting Monday October 11, 2010.  Sharlyn Premuda will be traveling with me along with another friend.  We will be visiting bead shops, glassmakers, mask shops, the Orsoni smalti/mosaic factory and anything we find interesting.  We will probably go to some museums and churches as well.  


I will try to place a link on my Facebook page or you can bookmark this site.  Since I am traveling with my iPad I am hopefull my blog posting and photo sharing will all work out! 


We arrive in Venice Monday morning and will go to our apartment near Santa Margherita campo and then the exploration begins! 


Following are some photos of my packing process - I am packing my carry on backpack and suitcase and have laid everything out on the spare room bed for possible inclusion in my suitcase.  As you can see, George is overseeing the process!

  Of course, not all the stuff on the bed made it into the bag otherwise I would not be able to roll it along in Venice.  In Venice there are no cars, you either walk or take the vaporetto (water bus).  Even taking the vaporetto you probably have a walk over bridges to your residence.


And the following couple of photos show what I will see when I get to Venice.  These photos are from my last trip there two years ago.  The first one is the Grand Canal with the second a shot of those picturesque gondolas!
 

Caio for now!  Hopefully my posting works with my iPad.
 
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Lake Michigan Lighthouses

On Sunday, October 5, 2008 my husband and I took a Lighthouse Tour from the air of the Lake Michigan lighthouses around Beaver Island, Michigan and the Straits of Mackinaw. Our friends had flown up from Ann Arbor to visit us on the island and go to the Bite of Beaver Island. Before they left we got our great air tour!
Garden Island to right and Beaver Island to left. You can see Paradise Bay as it "hooks" into Beaver Island.
High Island with ship in background.

Hog Island in foreground, Garden to right and Beaver Island to left.
Fisherman heading north to the Upper Penninsula from Beaver Island.
Grays Reef Lighthouse

Mackinac Bridge with Mackinaw Island in background.
St Helena Island Lighthouse.
St. Helena
St. Helena Lighthouse closeup.
White Shoal Lighthouse

The Bonanza plane we flew in on this Lighthouse trip.
Near Brevort in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan. The colors are getting pretty.


Lansing Shoal Lighthouse

Skilagalee Lighthouse
Skilagalee Lighthouse
The bombed out Waugoshance Point lighthouse.
White Shoals Lighthouse again.
Beaver Island archipelago - nice to see the upper islands.

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