We did some shopping and met Winnie, Maryam and Karissa at Kong for lunch at Kong designed by Philippe Starck. We ate lunch there the day before after stumbling upon it while shopping after going to the Musee D'Orsay. We just wanted to have a drink or a small dessert the day before but after seeing a waiter walk by with a delightfully presented hamburger (but the name just does not do it justice here) we ordered a second lunch -- life is so hard. We ate here again with our friends and added desert this time -- sigh. Kelsea had the best pick but it was a big laugh about the size of Maryam's desert especially her serving of icecream (perhaps a tablespoon) that she had planned on sharing. I ordered sorbet and was served not a whole lot more than Maryam. Great design thought and I would do it all again.
We boarded the train to Venice for our eight o'clock departure on our couchette - with six of us sharing the small room that made up into six beds. We shared with Karissa, Maryam and Winnie who were all good travel mates. Some of our group were broken up and shared with people other than in our group; but all seemed to fair the somewhat sleepless night ok. We arrived in Venice and had to wait for a couple of hours to take a short train ride and 15 minute walt to our Holiday Inn home for the next two days. The hotel was the best of our trip so far and at a price our group could affort to include Venice in out trip it was worth the train trip to it.
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