It had to finally end

Day 18    Flight home from Venice    Monday, August 11, 2014

This is my souvenir from our final morning in Venice. I lowered the window in our vaporetto as we were cruising down the canals on our way to the airport, and it fell onto my thumb. This photo was taken six weeks later, and it looks like this Venice souvenir will be lasting quite a while longer.

Everything went fine on our final morning. We figured out how to work the BnB coffee maker, and ate some snacks that we found in the kitchen. We got our suitcases all closed up and headed on out to the Grand Canal for the final time. We got to the dock so early that we caught an earlier airport vaporetto than the one we had planned on. It was a picturesque final cruise through Venice, out into the lagoon, and across it to the airport. When we embarked the vaporetto, we were only the second people to get on; but by the time we headed across the lagoon, we had stopped several more times and the boat was fully crowded.

Our walk from the airport dock to the terminal was actually quite far. Even at 9:30 am, it was already hot and humid enough for us to be working up a sweat pulling our luggage that far. Everything went like clockwork in the terminal, and soon we were seated at our departure gate. Lo and behold, there were Angela, Chris, and Hannah with whom we had toured Florence, Pisa, and Rome. 

The flight to Philadelphia was just fine and dandy. We watched movies. Our layover time was long, about three hours, plus there were some delays leaving. But we made it to Dayton, and Brandon picked us up and drove us to his condo where we got Janet's car and drove home. It was over. What a trip!