Carnevale

Carnevale this year started February 26th and ends March 8th. I headed out to Venice with a few friends to celebrate this Friday and it was incredibly fun and an unforgettable experience.

We were lucky to have missed the snow the day before, and we arrived for a beautiful sunny day which we started out by grabbing a venetian spritz. 

Later we headed into the heart of Venice, to Piazza San Marco where it was bustling with all sorts of beautiful, elegant, costumes.  Everyone is dressed up unrecognizable and if not wearing at least a mask they would get their face painted.

We met up with some other friends at the Ponte Rialto where we eventually joined a traveling dance party (which consisted of one large speaker in a shopping cart, an ipod, and two Italians leading the cart and mob of dancing people) through the narrow streets of Venice frequently stopping so we could dance in the little piazzas between the bridges.

We stayed up all night and waited for the first train back to Bologna at 5:57 am. We were chilled to the bone and exhausted, but it was completely worth it.