We stopped at the little grocery store and pastry shop to buy food for dinner that night and maybe breakfast the next morning while we were on the train. My mom bought some croissants for breakfast, but they got all smashed with all the transporting we did.
Our Uber driver was crazy. He would get mad at the other drivers and one time he even stopped and got out of his car to confront another car. The driver of that car drove on ahead so he didn't actually talk to them, but it was pretty crazy that he did that.
We got to the train station in good time, thanks to our crazy Uber driver. It turns out that we were there way too early. We thought this train station would have been like the other one in London so we wanted to make sure we had lots of time. We thought that they would have security and maybe customs because we were leaving the country. But no, none of that. It was the only place that we went that didn't have any sort of screening or security. We were all very surprised.Our time finally arrived for us to board our train. We found where we needed to be and dragged all our luggage into our little room where we would be spending the next 14 hours of our lives. I would love to say that it was cozy but comfortable, but I cannot. It was not comfortable at all. The seat back tilted in from top to bottom and it just wasn't comfortable. I had a really hard time getting comfortable.
They were made for 4-6 people. The head rest folded down and someone could sleep on that. Connie slept on the bottom, my mom slept in the middle, and then Teagan slept on the very top. I didn't feel comfortable sleeping on the bunk bed so they let me sleep on the bottom of the other side without having the middle bed down closing in on me. I thought that was very nice of them.
We ate our baguette with butter, cheese, and ham for dinner. I really needed a break from our room so I convinced Teagan to go to the dining car with me for a drink. I got a 7 up and sat in booth. I felt much better being outside of the room. Teagan wanted to get back so we didn't stay out for very long.
After we got back we got ready to go to sleep. I was pretty tired and hoped that I would be able to sleep okay...and I did. It was actually more comfortable to lay down on my bench then to sit on it. Connie and my mom woke up first and opened up the blinds to look at the country side. I stayed laying down as long as I could before getting up and getting ready for the day.Our train was running a little behind and got into our stop at about 9:00 am on Friday morning. We got off our train and tried to figure out what to do from there. Connie and my mom decided to take the train to the stop closest to our Bed & Breakfast. They failed to make a plan on how to get from the train station to our B & B.
So we walked around to see what we could find. We knew their was a bus station but we didn't know if they took coin or if we needed a ticket, so we tried to find out. We found a bar and went in and asked for help. Since we were so far away the tourist part of Venice, they did not speak English. We don't speak Italian. So that was fun. He did call Diana and she told him how we take the bus to her place.
So we went to the bus station and waited the half an hour until the bus came hoping that we could pay with coins to ride the bus. We were wrong. We needed tickets and so the driver would not let us ride. AND that was the last bus of the day going where we needed to go.So we walked back to the bar and asked him to call us a taxi. He did and we waited for the taxi for what felt like an hour. We did meet a nice Italian girl who spoke English and she talked to us while we waited. When our taxi got there it was so wonderful. He had a large enough car and he took us right to our B & B: Casa Diana. He was pricey but we didn't care, we were just so happy to finally be there.



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