Monday, February 27, 2006
Vienna & Venice
 We are backpacking our way through Europe in 1981. I'm on the far left, my college roommate is on the far right and the two girls in between we met in Vienna. We visited St. Stephen's Cathedral and a beer garden that was located in an old nunnery. Ha! DJ and I loved the ceramic mugs they had for sale there. We bought 16 and mailed them back to the states (only two of them made it unbroken, so we each have one).
The next day we headed on over to Venice, Italy. We had saved up our money because we both wanted genuine Italian spaghetti. When our order came, it was this gigantic plate of spaghetti noodles with two meatballs on top.
I couldn't believe it. Where was the sauce? Well, that was the most expensive plate of noodles I've ever had in my life, but I ate as many as I could and quickly decided I liked my mom's spaghetti better.
The gondolas were everywhere, but too expensive for our budget, so we just watched, walked the town and looked at many of the famous landmarks. For my shadowbox, I bought a beer stein from Austria and two charms (for a bracelet)--one from Austria and one from Italy.
 Tomorrow ... Nice, France.
posted by Deeanne at 10:43 AM
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4 Comments:
Barb said...
Your backpack looks a little serious. How much did it weigh, once you started throwing in all the souvenirs?! Or did you mail them all home?
3:40 PM
Deeanne said...
It was definitely a serious backpack. Nothing was mailed home (except for those ceramic mugs). So, my bedroll, pillow, clothes, books, maps, camera, souveniors, everything, was in that backpack.
Pretty fun, eh?
4:20 PM
Deeanne said...
Oh, I have no idea how much it weighed.
4:21 PM
Jezreel said...
Ooooh, sounds like you need to try Israel's food - it was always better than my mom's :P
I agree with Barb - that was on serious backpack!
5:17 PM
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