Walter Family Place - Finally made it home. Italy was nice food was great, and the traffic around Venice is a mess. The good thing was is that I only spent two days in Venice before heading to the country side. Venice was really neat to visit. I did get pictures (I will post some as soon as I get them developed) of canals, boats, canals, churches, canals, and the Walter Hotel, all inside Venice. The people were friendly and where very willing to help me get around. There plazas everywhere there was a church. Most of the places selling food had places to eat outside so you could people watch. And most of the people seemed to be tourists watching other tourists watching other tourists. The weather was cool but sunny and the hotel I was in was across the street from the train station so getting into Venice was easy. I do not recommend staying in Venice proper. The train, bus and cars all stop on the edge of the area and you walk from that point on. All of the bridges have steps to go up and down and the sidewalks are not very wide or very smooth. Driving to the work site was easy once I got away from the Venice area. The truck traffic was unreal. The main highway is the route from the Croatia and Serbia and all trucks bringing in goods travel past Venice to get to the rest of Italy and towards France. Everyone said that I would get lost heading for the work site, they were wrong. I did miss one turn, but saw the signs as I drove past, so I did a quick u-turn and went back. The little town of Aviano is little. The wine was good and cheaper than water, so I drank a lot of cheap wine that was better than most of the wines I get here in Utah (no real surpise there). I can see why the US Air Force has a base in this area. The mountains just north of town were towering high above the city and snow capped, quite pretty. I now have road maps to Italy, Germany, and Greece, so if you need to figure out how to get around in one of these places let me know and I will get a map to you. Mom and Dad are here and the kitchen is close to being done. Dad and I have worked on getting the sink, dishwasher, and ice maker hooked up and operational. I think (I hope I hope I hope) that the sink water lines will not leak. Mom and Sandy have been using the dishwasher to wash everything before it gets put away and Dad and I have been enjoying the ice cubes in our dinks. Like I mentioned, once I get the pictures of Venice back I will get some posted (especially of the Walter Hotel).