When in Rome!

I am alive! Do not fear!
So last time I left off we were jsut about to leave to go to Italy, and now we are at the heart of it in Roma.
So the day we left to Italy we took a dip in the pool to cool us off befoer our long travel. Then headed out to the train station. We ended up going to Milano, because it was to expensive to go anywhere else. We ended up getting in Milano after a 4 hour train ride, (which for more than half we had no idea if we were going the right way, due to how amazingly little direction there was at the Domodosilo station). So we ended up going to Piero Rosto Youth Hostel, which I was worried wold be booked considering it was like the only hostel in Milano. But we got the cheapest rooms, with a free Italian breakfast! Don't get to excited, it was actually the worst breakfast in a hostel so far. It was baguettes, crackers, jam, nutella (or some form of it anyway), and corn flakes (OH! But only if you're an early riser! They take it away after an hour, because, you know, corn flakes are SOOOO expensive). The best part of this breakfast was that the coffee was free so we just ended up drinking like 3 cups before heading out.
Anyway we just hung around for the night because it was too late to do anything.
So after getting wired off free coffee we headed out to see Milan (Milano if you're english). The first thing we did was check out the Duomo, which was spectacularly large! It could fit up to 40,000 people in it during a ceremony. Too bad there wasn't any organ playing in it. Or next stop was Castello Sforzesco, which was a decent enough castle with a big fountain inforont of it. Notmuch to see here, just a very large park behind it. We tried to go up a tower to have a high glance of Milan, but they closed for four hours between 12pm-4pm. (Hmm if only I had the luxury of that lunch break) So we headed on to the Milan Monumental Cemetery. This was epic! There were massive marble and stone statues for grave stones. There was one which was very eerie and looked like a diseased mummy\zombie looking thing, and a very odd person next to him wallowing in sorrow. Very odd. And this was only on the side of the graveyard, the central graveyard was much more baffeling, with statues\gravestones up to 2 stories high. Maybe I'll be buried here some day with a giant statue of me giving the thumbs up. We didn't tour to much around here because it was hot, and we were thirsty, beat, and soar in the feet! So we wend back to the hostel and whined about the heat.
We got loaded up on coffee once again and went to the train station to get to a famous city called Veniezza! Venice to those of Canada :-P.
We ended up getting there around 4 and were instantly baffled at the water surrounding us. We paid an a exetnsive amount (for 'bus' passes) but we could see why. There were not busses (or very few) what they called busses were actually large boats to float you to your destination. There were even taxi boats, which amused me. We made our way to the island we were staying at (Lido) and easily found our hotel. That's right! We stayed at a hotel, it feels good to say that. It only cost like 5€ more to stay there. So we ended up paying 50€ for one night for a double room, with AC (thank God), private bathroom, and cable TV. We left our nice and cool room to take a boat around Venice, and ended up just looking out the side at all the craziness. We toured the Great Canal.
It baffled us! It looked like the buildings were all just ploped there which no islands at all, it just looks like the buikldings go right down into the water. We got back to the hotel, drank a bottle of wine, and watched CNN. (There were onyl 2 english channels, both news, but we were glad to be watchign something we recognized).
After a great nights sleep, with no interruptions, in pure darkness, we headed to tour around Venice. We went to one of the churches, and took a gander around it. The line up was way too long to be standing in in the dead heat with no water. We would have fainted before getting in. So we just walked around venice (with over 1000 bridges) Each alley way heading somewhere different. Some heading into an alley way of water, which the only use (as far as I could see) would be for a pee after a drunken night trying to find your way back).
After the hot day of wondering the city we decided to go to the beach a few cheap beers. We swam there for a few hours then got some spectacular pizza and headed 'home'.
OUur next trip was supposed to be to Rome, but we ended up going to Florence because it was cheaper. Doing this is when we learned that the train system in Italy stinks major skunk ass. We tried goign to the ticke salesman, but it was cheaper to go to the machines (why? I have no idea) We bought our tickets with a transfer in Bolgna
Ran outta time will post later...