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  Belgrade, Serbia
Sunday, February 15, 2009

Despite the snow, we had a really enjoyable visit in Belgrade. We spent the first few days catching up with family and exploring the city. One of the highlights of our visit was a modern ballet/dance show, for which Marko's aunt bought us tickets. The show was based on a famous Serbian movie, about the lives of a group of people on a bus. The music was really upbeat and the dancing was incredible. The next night was Emily's birthday and Marko's uncle Zoran took us out for a great traditional Serbian dinner, some live music and beers. The weather remained pretty bad for the duration of our visit which meant that we couldn't spend too much time exploring the city, but meant that we spent a lot of quality time hanging out with the family.

On Saturday, February 21 we said our goodbyes to Belgrade and caught a night train heading into Venice for Carnival. This wasn't just any train, it was probably the dirtiest, most broken down, dilapitated train that either of us had ever been on. Luckily there were some friendly Serbians in our car who had decided to have a party and let us join in. We arrived in venice bright and early and enjoyed a few hours of walking around the canals and old cobblestone streets before the crowds. Around noon we started noticing people walking around dressed in elaborate costumes. We followed some of these costumed people into St. Marks square and found the crouds! They say that the population of Venice doubles during carnival, it actually seemed to triple! Neither of us have ever seen so many people in one place, the crowds were solid as far as the eye could see. After a few hours of enjoying the costumes and fighting the crowds we were both exhausted. We caught a ferry boat/bus to the train station and left for our hotel in Verona.

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