I LOVE VENICE

Yes. So far my favorite.  Then again, I have only been here for roughly 8 hours.  But I love everything I have thus far come in contact with...the waterbusses, the canals, the bridges, the lack of cars, the seafood, the prosecco (thanks Rio!)...the list keeps on going. 
Today we drove from Sasso Marconi (where we stopped last night when it dropped to almost freezing and began to snow) to Venice, and got here around 2 pm.  We parked outside the city, and took a "people mover" aka a train into the city, then a waterbus to the stop right by our hotel.  When we arrived, we found that the reservation we thought we had made through Expedia had never gone through, so the hotel thought we were just crazy Americans making things up :) They were extremely helpful, however, and served us delicious cappucino and let us use their internet and phone until we got everything sorted out. Thankfully, we were never charged, and the hotel had an opening for us, so we got to stay anyway.  I was very glad, as it is a beautiful hotel right on the Grand Canal, and therefore very easy to find amid the teensy tiny streets of Venice.  I thought the streets in Rome were small...these are barely alleys.  And honestly, that is part of what I love about them!  I have never been anywhere like this before, and I am eating it up. 
We spent the afternoon walking around, getting a little lost, and enjoying Venice.  We had a wonderful progressive dinner, as we began at one restaurant recommended to us where we couldn't understand a  thing on the menu except prosecco, birra, and zuppa (champagne, beer, and soup).  We had all three, then moved about three yards down the street for the rest of our meal of a calzone for Dad and a seafood pasta for me.  I have thouroughly enjoyed every single thing that went into my mouth thus far in Italy, save one gnocchi dish I had in Rome.  I think that is a pretty good record.
My internet is about to run out for the evening, so I will leave you with that.