August 1st - Venice Day 2

It's my birthday. Mike & Pam had decided they were going to stay on the ship today so Roger & I headed out a little earlier this morning.  We walked to Saint Marks Square again on a different path.  We walked across the  Rialto bridge.  It was nice because there weren't a ton of people walking across.  We finally reached the square around 9:30.  We got in line to go into Saint Marks Basilica which it surpirsed me how long the line was.  Once we got to the area to go in I was told I would need to check the little backpack I had so I just told Roger to go in and I would wait outside for him.  It didn't take very long for him to go through because they move you through and you can't take pictures inside.  When he finished there we went to the Dodge's  Palace and walked through there.  It was used for the courts, prisons and government.  We walked across the Bridge of Sighs.  It was starting to get warm so we headed back to the ship again meandering the streets & bridges of Venice.  We went and stood out on deck 5 as we sailed out of Venice and drank the champagne that had been sent to our cabin.  Mike purchased pina coladas at dinner and then Radoslav our dinning room bar waiter brought us a round of Baily's in Carnival glasses for us and said that I got to keep the glasses.