{"id":3353,"date":"2013-04-18T20:51:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T04:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T21:55:09","slug":"venice_in_the_spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/04\/18\/venice_in_the_spring.html","title":{"rendered":"Venice in the spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our family trip to Venice was a great success. We celebrated Steve&#8217;s 80th birthday in grand style, and Lucy, less than six months old, flew on a plane for the first time. Grace loved the combination of gondolas, pasta, and gelato, and it was a real treat to have my parents there as well as nearly everyone from Aimee&#8217;s family. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8666190154\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8253\/8666190154_6c83d9193d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8666184422\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8241\/8666184422_83f034c6a7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8665047933\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8257\/8665047933_217f6bc570.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8666141994\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8256\/8666141994_def83dcb11.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8665041377\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8256\/8665041377_6745047e2b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8665026353\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8249\/8665026353_3d04864881.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8664985407\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8255\/8664985407_df5bcbf92a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8666080714\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8245\/8666080714_63805168fc_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"749\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8664978891\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8260\/8664978891_5f66ed940f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8664959159\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8247\/8664959159_414273eee6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8664940291\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8265\/8664940291_49e399def9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8664938901\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8257\/8664938901_3ae8438c42.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8662965387\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8262\/8662965387_cf495d9b02.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8662953671\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8244\/8662953671_9754052d4e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8662918161\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8261\/8662918161_ed11b7abb0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8662452779\/\" title=\"Venice 2013 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8250\/8662452779_64da6e33db.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Venice 2013\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/8685901869\/\" title=\"IMG_6917 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8533\/8685901869_75fca72814.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"141\" alt=\"IMG_6917\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aimee and I had both visited Venice before, but never together, and we also took a gondola ride for the first time, which was a real treat. See the complete <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/sets\/72157633287090807\/\">set of photos here<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our family trip to Venice was a great success. We celebrated Steve&#8217;s 80th birthday in grand style, and Lucy, less than six months old, flew on a plane for the first time. 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