I wore close-toed flats to the opera...

...I think I'm finally learning! Europe has finally forced me to wear real shoes. I now feel I have the right to be snotty to the rude/stupid Americans who don't know the rules to standing-room at the Staatsoper. Interestingly enough, this was at the production of Madama Butterfly, in which an American soldier abandons a Japanese girl and leaves her penniless with his child.