HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLY!

Today is Shakespeare's birthday! The classy age of 448. So, after having brunch at Hudson's with the awesome Jones duo, which was crazy delicious, we headed to the Folger Shakespeare Library to attend his birthday party. Yes, they threw him a birthday party. It was kind of awesome. There were tons of birthday guests and they had lots of activities. You could make your own shield, garland for your hair, ruffly thing for your neck, dress up with his clothes, or practice your quill writing. I mean, it was Elizabethan heaven. We took tons of pics!

They had balloons and food trucks out front.

Inside, the library was beautiful! Stained glass, mahogany everything, chandeliers, it truly was beautiful!

Brad tried to conduct the string Quartet that was playing. They were classy; he was creepy.

 Yep, this is a woman holding a bear. This was never explained.

They had "Spontaneous Shakespeare" where people could come on stage and recite lines from his plays.

There were jugglers!!!

We also saw the First Folio (first set of plays by the man, the myth, the legend) which Folger's has more copies of than anywhere else in the world. A very nice guide told us that the rest of the copies are in their underground vault along with the only original copy of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus that is worth about $15 to $20 million now. That is insane!

We had a great time and I am happy to say that I spent a Sunday afternoon celebrating a 448 year old man!

Chelsea