We went to Murano and saw glass blowing demonstrations. It was pretty interesting.

They had a huge glass sculpture in Murano.

Went out to dinner with Brad tonight. It's nice being able to spend some one/on/one time with the kids.

After dinner we ran into Ashley, Ian, Megan, and Mitzi who had gone to the beach and all had gelatos
6-17-10 Thursday
Found a place that has Ferrero Rochere gelato. Big mistake. I had one of them on the way to the store, then another on the way back, then another with Kindra when we went to find a farmacia. It’s almost 3pm and we still don’t have everyone ready to leave for the day. It doesn’t help that we only have 1 bathroom here, and nobody really got up until almost noon today. We decided to go to Murano anyway. Got there quite late, but we were able to watch a couple master glass makers making some glasses. Then we walked into a couple of the glass galleries. They have some beautiful stuff. Kindra and I took Brad out to dinner tonight as Brecken wasn’t feeling too well. There was an American couple who were sitting next to us, and they ordered fish like I did last night. When it came out whole, they had the waiter take it and take off the skin and take out the bones. I think this is a bit of an example that Americans can be a bit inflexible and always want things their way. We had told the other kids they could walk to the beach. It’s pretty amazing that families are out pretty late here. Megan, Ashley, Ian and Mitzi all went to the beach by themselves at about 9:30pm. So many families and kids out at night, that it doesn't feel unsafe to have 4 small kids go to the beach by themselves at nearly 10pm. They walked right by us eating dinner and only Megan saw us, and we told her not to let the others know. We didn’t want Mitzi interrupting the rest of our dinner. I had a spicy pizza and it was really good. Of course I had a galato for dessert.