We’ll be off to the premiere performance of Silicon Valley Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure in about an hour; there’s no phone service at the venue (Sanborn Park) and it’ll be late when we get home, so I’m posting now.

We did more preparation (mostly shopping) for our Africa trip this afternoon; Diane bought a backpack to use as her “personal item” on our flights, I bought another pair of tan convertible pants, and we found our copy of Mark Nolting’s African Safari Field Guide, which we’d bought in 2020 between our first and second attempts to take the trip. It had spent the intervening months in an undisclosed location, and it took me a while to find it!

The big news, though, was that I decided I was sufficiently recovered from the PDT treatment to shave this morning – shaving didn’t irritate my face, so I guess I was right. I do have a lot of skin sloughing off, but that’s progress!

We spent most of the day working on final plans for our upcoming Africa trip.

We researched appropriate clothing colors – white is a bad idea; so is black and dark blue.

We shopped for new shirts in those appropriate colors and didn’t find them in the store, but did find it on their website – we should get them next week.

We started looking for interesting tours to take in Cape Town on the free days we have between arrival and the first scheduled activity.

We took the information in the Trip Book and excerpted relevant parts into a spreadsheet so we can see the trip at a glance.

And we’re looking for better backpacks to make the most use of underseat space; we want to avoid checking a bag if at all possible.

There’s more to life than trip planning, of course. We’re seeing Into the Woods at Lyric Theatre tonight; I’m not going to want to post after the show, so here you are!

Shabbat Shalom!