We have arrived

We made it to Italy. Parilla was great on the plane, train and boat. She was not thrilled with being in the carrier for 12 + hours between the 2 flights or having to wear her muzzle on the train and boat, but other than that we could not have asked for her to have been any better.

Overall the travel from Denver to Venice was pretty good. We got very luckly, rather than having to sit apart on the flight from Dulles to Rome we not only were together we got ecomony plus seats. Homemade cookies can get you somewhere. (Thanks Robert!)

We were fortunate to sit in first class on the train from Rome to Venice, even thought we only paid for 2nd class tickets. I was tired and forgot how the train tickets indicate the car and seats and we sat in first class, but none of the ticket checkers seemed to care. The seats were much nicer than 2nd class and it was quiter.

Venice is great. A little cool due to the wind chill. We were even mistaken for locals this morning by an Italian asking for directions. He was very suprised to discover that not only were we not from Venice we were not even Italian. Our plan of bringing Parilla to make us look like locals is paying off.