LEaving VEnice

We didn’t have much time on Saturday morning, so we decided to have a little fun and go shopping ☺ We were proud of ourselves for shopping as little as we did and exploring the city instead. A little after noon, we headed back to the hotel to grab our luggage and catch the water bus back to the train station. We made it with time to spare. We all got on the train and waited for it to take off. A few minutes before it left, our director came around counting everyone to make sure everyone had made it. “26, 27… “ No, he hadn’t miscounted again, we really were missing people. Three of them. The train took off. And we had left three of the girls in Venice. Yep- they were stranded in Italy since they missed the train. Luckily they were together and they caught the next night train (they had taken the wrong waterbus to get to the station, and it drove right past the station without letting anyone off- they made it five minutes after the train left). But the rest of us made it home safely, after seven long hours. The drive home was beautiful, though. We drove through the Alps and made it home to Vienna safe and sound.