Peace, Love, and Hot Dog Cakes

This morning Griffin and I went to one of the opera houses in Venice - La Fenice. It was destroyed by a fire in 1996 and rebuilt in 8 1/2 years and it reopened about a year ago. It was one of the coolest theatres i had seen in a long time (they are having a miles davis tribute concert of some sort on the 31st which makes me sad that i'll be out of town). Anyways, it was incredible - beautiful ceilings and a fun tour guide. After that Griffin and I went walking (I bought my first souvenier - a venice shirt woot. i promise i'll haggle with a street vendor for a fake prada if you really want it, mom). We ended up towards the "tail" of venice (it's shaped like a fish) and wandered around the gardens, had some delicious gnocchi and tortellini for lunch, and then melted in the heat of the sun walking back. It's a hot one today so i'm glad we got a lot done this AM. We still have a few things on the list to do (gondola ride, a few churches, maybe the original jewish ghetto and cemetary, and cruise the grand canal). Anyways, back to chill out. ciao!
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