"But will they be dried?"

We get on the road early in the morning so we can get a good day in Venice. We take a ferry to Lido and find our hotel with relatively no problems (surprise, surprise, we really didn't get lost!) At the hotel, I ask for laundry service. I bring down my jeans and ask for them to be washed. I don't want my clothes pressed just washed I tell the hotel lady. Melissa asks "But will they be dried?" Um, have you ever received your clothes back wet when you pay someone to wash them? Too funny especially because we were speaking in English so there was no misinterpretation due to the language. The poor hotel lady looked at us like we were crazy Americans!
We walk around downtown, get lunch and I a lot of pictures. We head back to the hotel where we take the hotel private water taxi to Murano Island - home of the world famous blown glass. We watch a small demonstration on the art of glass blowing and then go into the Murano show room. The glass is beautiful - they actually are pieces of art and come with matching price tags to boot! We take the vaporetto (water taxi) to Venice and walk around. It is so cold that we skip the gondola ride but we do stop at Harry's Bar and have a Bellini. A Bellini is a champagne cocktail that was created at Harry's Bar. The place is pretty packed but we are able to grab four seats at the bar where we enjoy our Bellinis while we watch the bartender make at least 100 Bellinis! For dinner we head to a Chinese restaurant on Lido and Melissa has "shitty shrimp" for dinner. Yes I laughed - yes it was mean but oh it was sooooo funny! We head back to the hotel to change and get ready to celebrate the New Year. I fall into bed and am out. They say how you spend new year's is how you will spend the year - I guess this means I will be getting a lot of beauty sleep!