Transition: Italy to Slovenia

We woke up to the news that the Huskies had crushed Stanford, so the day started off fabulously! We packed up our stuff and put it in day storage so that we could get a few more hours of sight-seeing and shopping in before our train to Trieste, Italy. We took another boat ride that covered the last stretch of the Grand Canal that we hadn’t seen yet and then finished off our shopping with a stop to a stationary store on the Rialto Bridge that is very special to us and found a great family leather goods store right next door. Fully loaded with goods from Venice, we grabbed our luggage and headed to the train station so that we would have time to eat lunch and see the last few spots on our sight-seeing list. Instead, we unloaded our boat at the train station and had time to buy a couple to-go sandwiches, go to the bathroom and load our train minutes before it left. It was one last Venice lesson that everything takes longer than you think-actually that just seems to be a lesson for any traveling family.

Two hours later we had read, whined, done math, cried, wrote in journals, argued, listened to music and covered the last stretch of Italy by train. Cousin David picked us up at the train station and drove us to his house in Ljubljana, Slovenia. David shared about how excited his three kids (5, 4, and 3) were to play with Reese and Kendall-which was great because our girls were excited for some playtime with other kids as well!  

Just a couple of American girls on a train in Italy.