We've arrived!

After a long overnight flight (which Mom slept 10 of the 11 hours of thanks to Dramamine) we arrived in the Amsterdam airport.  It was the nicest airport any of us had ever been to!  It had an art museum, a library, massages, and really nice restaurants.  It even had a "Sleeping Room" for "invited guests" only (we weren't invited).  We stayed in the airport during our 6-hour layover, and then boarded the plane to Venice.  We rented our car and drove to Treviso (without a map, unfortunately).  After looping around the town a few times, we found the small alleyway that is our street, and we were greeted by the kindest landlords, Guerrino and Graziella, who showed us around our huge apartment.  We are on the first floor (not the ground floor) of a four story building.  We may have mentioned that we are living right above a gelato shop, but what we didn't know is that the gelato shop that is 10 feet from our front door has been voted the best gelato in all of Italy and 2nd best in all of Europe!!!  When we had our first sampling later that evening, we were served by the champion gelato maker himself, Stephano.  We set out to find our first Italian meal and knew it had to be pizza and spaghetti.

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 we ended up at restaurant Da Pino - delicious.  On the way home we stopped by a huge vending machine on the street that sells, among other things, full bottles of milk - Rachel was in heaven - and then had our famous gelato.  We tried raspberry, strawberry, and mango, but we all agreed Julia's coconut was the best so far (all except Rachel who is sticking with raspberry).  We finally got to bed around midnight Italian time.  A great first day!