Europe: Day 7 (July 11th)

Today we left our Venetian hotel and departed for the city of Verona, which for those who remember studying Shakespeare, is the city that his play "Romeo and Juliet" is set in. We got to tour an ancient Roman Coliseum, the third largest in the world. We walked to the actual balcony where Juliet was said to have been for his play. After walking around some of the shops, getting some gelato, and chilling out in the park, we got on the bus and traveled to our last Italian city of Stresa, which is situated by beautiful Lake Maggiore. We had the evening after dinner to walk through this cozy little city. We stopped by some of the shoreline and skipped rocks for a while. We didn't do much after that, just walked up and down the street, got eaten alive by mosquitoes, and then came back to the hotel a little bit early. There, we formed a congregation of people watching Angelo mesmerize an audience of SOA with his mind-blowing magic tricks, and even showed us how some of them were done. I then went up to my room, did some laundry, and went to bed.