Venice September 1

 And so the trip begins

 Visiting with Bruce and JoAnn at Dulles

 Checking out the wines at Vino Volo Dulles Airport

Dulles Airport

 Always easy to pick out Washington's flag

And New Mexico's

NJ not so much

Munich Airport

Crappy cookies on Dolomiti Airlines

Flying into Venice

Venice

The pool on board at night

The view of Venice from our balcony

We made it!  Travel was mostly uneventful,  In fact, remarkably so.  Even our luggage got here,  We flew out of SEATAC to Dulles in DC where we had a 6 1/2 hour layover, We got to meet with Bruce and JoAnn who only live a mile away.  Then it was on to our night flight on Lufthanza to Munich.  We had bulkhead seats, but even so, very little sleep.  The food was awful:  canned green beans, nondescript chicken, and some kind of cornbread dressing.  In any event, it was over soon enough.  Munich airport is like a high end shopping mall!.  After cappuccino and a pretzel, it was off on Air Dolomitti for the 40 minute flight to Venice.  They served those awful cookies we got in Sunday school.  Check into the boat was easy and seamless.  Our cabin is beautiful.  The food last night was lovely.   They have a spa menu that should keep me from gaining the obligatory 10 lbs.  We were seated with a couple from Bistol who were delightful.  Weird thing was they got three things wrong on out dinner order.  Oh well.  This morning took the water taxi to San Marco and are headed to the Doges Palace for a tour in 45 minutes.