It's a dip up!

No, seriously, I promise I'll finish with the Venice & London photos & everything. Really.

But this post isn't that, it's just to say that I just saw Brian Friel's new translation of Uncle Vanya at the Gate Theatre & it was gorgeous in every way* & it broke my heart a little in the way only good Chekhov can. Glory.

(* The set had trees all over it. Real trees, like in our Three Sisters. I missed doing that play so much.)

Venice, Part II (yet more of the pretty.)

And here's more Venice, more pretty pictures and more babbling about it all. Sunday was really our biggest touristy day, wherein we managed to see a lot of the things we'd (fairly randomly) put on our list before getting there. Monday & Tuesday were a little more low-key, totally unplanned, "maybe we'll go see that," poking about in shops, kind of days. Which, really, were no less enjoyable.

( Monday )

( Tuesday )

And to round out the post: Entirely unrelated to anything Venice, I would just like to say that although I generally like most of the t-shirts on Threadless, I find this one to be particularly endearing, because it is essentially my childhood. Except that I didn't have a dog. But still. I like it.