We left our place in frehand-voltare at 10:00 am.  We got to The Large Hadron Collider at 10:30.  We were hoping to get added onto the 10:30 am tour.  It was full.  So we did the self guided tour.  It is a facinating place.  Most of it I actually understood. 

We hit McDonalds for breakfast on our way out of town.  After breakfast we hit the road for Venice.  The drive to venice has been the worsy so far.  We were gping very fast on the freeway with speeding trucks and cars going very fast.  I felt i had to be payong attention ALL the time.  I enjoyed driving in Paris much more than doing 130km on the freeway weaving in and out of trucks.  The scenery for the drive was beautiful.  We drove thru the little towns in france .. switzerland and noryhern Italy.  We went thru a tunnel which was about 7 miles long.  Kind of spooky.  We finnally got to the parking structure at venice at 8 pm.  We got our belongomgs and catch a 5 minute train ride to the city.  After about 30 minutes of walking we arrived at 759 santa croce.  Fredrico was waiting for us.  He let us in and showed us around.  Gave us some tips as to places to eat … grocery stores .. and bakery.  He then began to show us how the airconditioning works.  When he turned it on in the kitchen to power went out.  We all had flashlights on our phones so we were following Fredrico around the house helping him turn the power back on.  After about 45 minutes he got it turnedback pn.  Turns out scott started some wash.  Apparantly you cant have airconditioning and do wash at the same time.  Fredrico was a great guy and the place is wonderful.  Looking forward to some relaxing times in Venice.  Less museums and more family interaction time.  We went down to the gtand canal for beer and pizza.  We wound up with ice cream and beer.  But it was 11:00 pm and there was tons of people out doing stuff and having fun.