&...you like it.

Saturday was a glorious day. The chill and fog in the morning quickly burned off, to a brilliant spring day just beginning to burst at the seams. Perfect time to head to Stratford-upon-Avon ("upon" not "on"-- google maps was not friendly to Stratford-on-Avon).

 Anne Hathaway's house. From here we had a lovely walk into town.

 Stratford Trinity Church--Shakespeare's grave inside.

Prayer pillows.

William and Anne.

 Elijah and the priests of Baal above the Bard--my favorite Hebrew Bible story and biblical validation for sarcasm.

All of the painted and stained glass in the church are scenes from Christ's life except for these eight windows. A church docent seemed to be just waiting for me to ask about the windows (they are slowly in the process of replacing the painted windows with stained glass). These windows display the seven stages of man in 6+2 windows--Jacques's famous monologue from As You Like It--leading from birth to death. The docent then proceeded to give me the monologue in his booming brogue, "All the world's a stage. And all the men and women merely players..."  (Ok, technically not a brogue, but I liked the alliteration.)

Camera freaking out and overexposing EVERYTHING. (Anyone have an extra SLR on their hands?) Very frustrating, but thanks to the marvel of photo editing software some of the photos were salvageable, despite this looking a little more like fall colors rather than spring.

Shakespeare's home.

Apparently the Bard's bank.

Thanks to Suzy for the adventure. Later Heni taught us to make fabulous Hungarian Cabbage rolls. MMM. 
Fantastic day.