Nora's trip diary

It’s been another perfect (well, almost) week-and-a-half. First we went to Venice where we had lots of fun, including being with friends who came from the US. Also we went to lots of fun places including going in a labyrinth, having lots of pizza and pasta and most yummiest of all GELATO! Let me introduce you to my favorite kind, Straciatela. Straciatela is a flavor of gelato with chunks of Oreo. They didn’t have Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough so I went with Straciatela.

One of the funniest things was when Uncle Kevin didn’t know how to put the car in reverse and Aunt Libby had to push the car. Another fun part was sleeping with Charlotte.

The first pizza restaurant we went to the pizza was watery! Gross rating: 10. The other most grossest thing in the world was we were in a town called Asolo and a few people had to go to the bathroom. So we looked for one and eventually we found one. We looked inside and guess what? There weren’t even toilets, there were foot prints for you to put your feet in and just go to the bathroom. Gross factor:100,000,000!! But of course, we (the girls) didn’t go there. We went in a restaurant. But SOME boys didn’t.

Asolo was cool. It also had a castle where we had to walk up ummmm….I’d say about 2,000 steps!

We also went to Murano, one of Venice’s Outer Islands. Murano is famous for making glass and we watched a demonstration on how to do it. We walked around and bought a little glass to take home. Charlotte got me a little glass candy (so cool, so awesome, and cute!). Earlier in the trip I bought her and me a sparkly hat. We also had a seder with them, which went very well. For Afikomen prized, I got a glass heart necklace and one more class candy.

In our almost perfect weekend we also went to Barcelona for half a week. Mostly we went on the tour bus. One huge sight was the Sagrada Familia, which is a Gaudi-designed modern church that isn’t finished even though they’ve been working on it for over 100 years. We had an awesome weekend. We just went to pick up my grandparents (Bebe and Grandoc) and suddenly ding-a-ling-a-ling, and out came 3 fire trucks emerging from the fire station. So cool! So we walked home and opened presents. Mine was a necklace with a Jewish star. It’s so pretty. I’m really looking forward to going back to school.