It was a sun blazing hot day, so took the water bus to Lido for a day at the Venetian Sea. We walked around a bit through the town. It is very different from Venice. All the stores look new and commercial and it really looked like many other beach towns. Somehow I managed to only pack the top half of my bathing suit, so I had to try and find a yet another new bathing suit before we hit the beach. We found the Undercolors of Benneton and they happened to have all their mismatched suits on sale, so I was able to find a bottom that would work. It was a bit too big and showed way more of my back side than I was comfortable with, but I figured it would work.We got a bit of lunch and some delicious gelato and then headed off for the public beach. The island has many beaches, but there is only one that is public: Blue Moon. The rest are privately owned and operated by hotels or residents. We went to change into our suits and had to pay one euro for the changing rooms, the toilets, the showers, and the use of an umbrella or we could get the whole package for 15 euro. I figured we wouldn't be changing more than twice, so that would only be 4 euro.
We found a nice piece of sand and laid our stuff out. Then hit the water! It was a bit cold, but not too bad this time of year since it has warmed up all season. Since my bathing suit was too big, it kept slipping off every time I got hit with a wave. I am sure I flashed the entire beach! Oh well, we still played in the water and tried to jump the waves. I laid in the sun and Skylar built a sand castle. We lazed about in the sand and water for the whole day soaking up the rays.As it started to get later and cooling down, we headed back to the water bus and took it to Rialto for some dinner. I took a bunch of pictures from the boat since we got the good seats at the head. Since we've gotten here we've only had pizza because vegetarian Italian food is much harder to find than I thought. We kept asking places and checking menus, but they all said they only had carbonara sauce. We came to a quaint little restaurant and asked the waiter about vegetarian lasagna. He went and asked the cook who came out and told us of course. We were elated! She said she could put in fresh zucchini or mushrooms too. Now I specifically asked for lasagna and lasagna is lasagna in English and Italian, but something must have gotten lost in translation because what we got was bowls of spaghetti with some oil on it. I was so mad! I said it was not what I ordered and the waiter kept apologizing and the cook pretty much said too bad. I was so not happy about paying 13 euro for spaghetti and probably should have just left because the cook was then being so rude, but we stayed and we ate it, so I paid and we left. Oh well, then we headed back to the boats. Skylar had been wanting one of the masks that are everywhere, so I finally let him pick one out at a shop along the way.
We got back on the boat that took us to the bus station where we could take the shuttle back to the hostel and get to bed.
More pictures can be seen at http://picasaweb.google.com/osani77/VeniceDay3
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