"A picture is worth 1000 words" some may say..... SO... please enjoy the following pictures of our recent trip to Venice, Italy. The 9 of us STINTers (interns) went away to Venice to bond, travel, and get to know each other better. We are continually figuring out what our "STINT team" even looks like---- as far as what we can "team around", so please continue to keep all of us in Rome in your prayers as we figure this (among lots of other things) out. Grazie, and enjoy the pictures!! :)
Our traditional pyramid in a random, open piazza somewhere in Venice.
Sam and I are so excited to be on the water taxi, heading toward Venice! :)
The first sights of Venice! See the Venetian arches above the windows? They're more pointy at the top instead of curved, like Roman arches!
A lovely bridge by one of the TONS of canals. :)
Looking out to the sea... what pretty gondolas! (or gondole, in Italian?) :)
The square/piazza by Basilica San Marco.
The entire piazza was flooded because of the heavy rains in the recent past, so some of us chose to purchase these yellow "boots" for 10 Euro that fit over your shoes. They were great... except a couple of my teammates' "boots" ended up LEAKING... :( So God bless them, they were stuck with cold, wet feet all day. So next time you're in Venice, make sure to wear your good rain boots/galoshes from home, and *don't* count on the cheap plastic ones to save your feet!
This sounds so touristy, but "LOOK, a real gondola driver man with his hat with a little red ribbon and striped shirt, just like in the movies!!!" was the thought that ran through my mind when I saw this... haha. :)
Le miei belle amiche!!! On the bridge that overlooks the Grand Canal: Jenny, Kerry, Kanda, April, me :)
So... Chris thought it'd be fun to pose like a band.. like how some bands pose for the cover/liner photos when they make CDs. Problem was, we tried to get random Italians to take our picture, and this didn't always work out. It took about 3 takes, and this was the best out of all of them (and even here, it's just kind of......weird?....... haha. But it was a really fun/random moment shared by all 9 of us... so therefore, priceless, and completely worth it.)
This picture is NOT from Venice.. but it's from Wednesday, Oct. 29th, right before we left, when the 9 of us decided to do "reverse trick or treat" to the Agape staff families here in Rome. We wanted to be a blessing to the Staff families here in Rome, and their kids, by randomly dressing up and running around the city with candy, knocking at people's doors (or more like buzzing at their apartment buildings:), and saying "Trick or Treat!!!" Then, they'd let us in and we'd visit a little, give them candy, and move on to the next house. One little problem: it rained that night. Not just rained, but absolutely POURED... like hurricane style. So here we were, running around the city, walking through the streets, aka fording the RIVERS like oxen on the Oregon Trail.... BUT having a blast while doing so. :) You can see myself and April & Kerry- dressed up as the Three Blind Mice (hence the sunglasses & whiskers).. and Jenny is the Farmer's Wife who cut off our tails with a carving knife. :) Chris dressed as a Roman soccer player, Sam is a traditional Roman in a toga-type outfit, Jimmy was a tin-foil covered robot, and Kanda & Brian were.. homies? for lack of a better word. LOL. :) But everyone looked stellar, for throwing our costumes together in 5-10 minutes.. and we had a really good night of riding the public transportation and getting a lot of weird looks, and running in the rain and having fun in the city. :) I just praise God for the rain, but also that it doesn't happen every day. :)
Our traditional pyramid in a random, open piazza somewhere in Venice.
Sam and I are so excited to be on the water taxi, heading toward Venice! :)
The first sights of Venice! See the Venetian arches above the windows? They're more pointy at the top instead of curved, like Roman arches!
A lovely bridge by one of the TONS of canals. :)
Looking out to the sea... what pretty gondolas! (or gondole, in Italian?) :)
The square/piazza by Basilica San Marco.
The entire piazza was flooded because of the heavy rains in the recent past, so some of us chose to purchase these yellow "boots" for 10 Euro that fit over your shoes. They were great... except a couple of my teammates' "boots" ended up LEAKING... :( So God bless them, they were stuck with cold, wet feet all day. So next time you're in Venice, make sure to wear your good rain boots/galoshes from home, and *don't* count on the cheap plastic ones to save your feet!
This sounds so touristy, but "LOOK, a real gondola driver man with his hat with a little red ribbon and striped shirt, just like in the movies!!!" was the thought that ran through my mind when I saw this... haha. :)
Le miei belle amiche!!! On the bridge that overlooks the Grand Canal: Jenny, Kerry, Kanda, April, me :)
So... Chris thought it'd be fun to pose like a band.. like how some bands pose for the cover/liner photos when they make CDs. Problem was, we tried to get random Italians to take our picture, and this didn't always work out. It took about 3 takes, and this was the best out of all of them (and even here, it's just kind of......weird?....... haha. But it was a really fun/random moment shared by all 9 of us... so therefore, priceless, and completely worth it.) 
This picture is NOT from Venice.. but it's from Wednesday, Oct. 29th, right before we left, when the 9 of us decided to do "reverse trick or treat" to the Agape staff families here in Rome. We wanted to be a blessing to the Staff families here in Rome, and their kids, by randomly dressing up and running around the city with candy, knocking at people's doors (or more like buzzing at their apartment buildings:), and saying "Trick or Treat!!!" Then, they'd let us in and we'd visit a little, give them candy, and move on to the next house. One little problem: it rained that night. Not just rained, but absolutely POURED... like hurricane style. So here we were, running around the city, walking through the streets, aka fording the RIVERS like oxen on the Oregon Trail.... BUT having a blast while doing so. :) You can see myself and April & Kerry- dressed up as the Three Blind Mice (hence the sunglasses & whiskers).. and Jenny is the Farmer's Wife who cut off our tails with a carving knife. :) Chris dressed as a Roman soccer player, Sam is a traditional Roman in a toga-type outfit, Jimmy was a tin-foil covered robot, and Kanda & Brian were.. homies? for lack of a better word. LOL. :) But everyone looked stellar, for throwing our costumes together in 5-10 minutes.. and we had a really good night of riding the public transportation and getting a lot of weird looks, and running in the rain and having fun in the city. :) I just praise God for the rain, but also that it doesn't happen every day. :)
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