Leaving Venice- the trip home

7:45 am Deb and I waiting for the water taxi outside our hotel. It actually picked us up at the hotel "water door" in the back of the hotel. 

A fun two weeks were coming to an end. But adventures continued......

It was a beautiful foggy morning. The streets almost deserted. 

Dave stood on the deck of the water taxi and shot videos of the ghostly progress through the foggy canals. We will share those later! 

I was hoping that the handsome young water taxi driver knew what he was doing! Visibility was almost zero and at one point Dave said he saw him take out his ipad to check google earth! It was just the 4 of  us on this ride and I was relieved when we pulled up to the dock of the Marco Polo airport.

The flight to Frankfurt was only one hour. 

We found a "new" Maui Jim Polage at Solaris in Frankfurt. 

That is the end of my photos, but not the end of adventure!  The giant 747 that we boarded in Frankfurt was not at all crowded so I was able to get an exit row with massive leg room! 

We taxied for a while and then the captain anounced that we had a small mechanical issue that needed to be resolved. More taxiing, more waiting, then: problem solved, but all the taxiing required re-fueling. More waiting. 

So two hours late into Dulles meant we missed our connection to Vegas. It was about midnight forbus and we were really exhausted.  The new flight they gave us would have a lay-over in Denver, getting us home around 11pm which would be 8am body time. We opted to stay over in DC. Good choice because it turned out the flight to Denver was delayed and we would have missed the connection there too. 

So here we are on our 8am flight to Las Vegas in our dirty clothes, who knows where our bags are!?

Travel is like that. Que sera, sera ...