Visitors Bring Crumbs

My mom came to visit! Her arrival was amazing. Early in the morning last Friday, I went all the way to the airport and picked her up. Our first two days were spent wandering around Dorsoduro (my neighborhood), seeing the quaint residential areas and some small shops. I also took her to some more touristy places (like The Rialto Bridge and the Piazza di San Marco). We visited my favorite gelateria (Il Doge in Campo Santa Margherita) and we experienced grocery shopping (at Billa) in Italy. All very exciting stuff of course. My mom brought DVDs she recorded of the latest Project Runway season, which we of course watched during her visit.
On Wednesday, my friend Kate came! I sent Kate off to explore while I went to class. After my classes, I took my mom to my dance studio to watch my classes (she said she wanted to, I swear!). And afterward we explored some and got some delicious pizza with cheese all melty from some hole in the wall place on the way back from the studio. Anyway, we met up with Kate for a while and just enjoyed time together.
On Thursday I was able to take Kate and my mom along with me to our gallery visit for our art history course. We went to the Chiesa dei Frari and the Scuola di San Rocco. After all my classes that day, we took a tour (my mom and Kate included!) of La Fenice (a major, possibly the major, theater in Venice which we have been reading about in our literature class). I left the two to explore the city while I went home to do some homework and take a much needed nap. On Thursday night, Kate and I stayed up for a while playing cards and catching up. Then we parted until January. Kate stayed in Venice over the weekend but my mom and I went to Paris.