Day 10 - The sleepy town of Murano

Today we awoke to a nice breakfast delivered to our room of cappuccino and muffins. Our B&B is so sweet- very clean, comfortable, and a great central location if I haven't said so already. We headed over to St. Mark's for a quick cappuccino. We took a boat over to Murano- an island in the lagoon. It was about a 25 minute ride and for some reason it made me very sea sick. All day today I feel like I am dizzy and rocking back and forth. We have to take a 1hour and 15 min boat ride to the airport tomorrow and I am little concerned.
Murano is a charming little island, very quiet and serene. It was Sunday and so things were quiet. Unfortunately, we were unable to watch any glass blowing exhibits because it was Sunday. However, we walked through store after store of different glass trinkets and saw galleries of some awesome glass pieces. It was different. After taking the boat ride back (I stood for it to see if that would help..it did), we headed back to our room for a quick 10 minute cat nap. We then headed back to the Rialto market to do last minute shopping for gifts. After shopping we decided to take a gondola ride-it was dusk and the grand canal looked so romantic. It cost 100 Euro for 4 people! Costly, but a must for romantics... and I am a romantic! It was magical and I am glad we experienced it.
We ended the night at a restaurant that we tried to find "off the beaten path," non-touristy. I got brave and tried a mixed fried seafood plate. It was a little scary- craw fish, calamari, and who knows what else. I didn't finish it, but I shared some of JoAnne's spaghetti arrabbarata. We wandered a little more after dinner trying to find the patisserie that Frank and I found yesterday that made the best cannolis. Unfortunately we didn't find it, but we enjoyed a gelato which finished off the night perfectly.
We leave tomorrow afternoon and so I will probably post one more time tomorrow when we get home. I will miss Italy very much. I have experienced so much in the past 10 days, I feel so fortunate. Thanks to John and JoAnne for the fun times with you guys, we had a lot of good laughs.