We had a very international dinner tonight: French toast. I think I mentioned that my mom brought pancake syrup when she came to visit. Well, I really like pancakes, but I don’t like to make them. That is what Perkins is for. But I do like to make French toast, so we have been eating that. A lot. First you have to go to the Standa and buy pane Americana. This is a loaf of square white bread like good old Wonder Bread at home. The only difference is the slices are thinner, and the whole loaf is much smaller. So you need to eat a lot more slices of French toast than you normally would. To review, you use American bread to make French toast in Italy. Like I said it was a very international meal.
Did I mention I found horsemeat and rabbit baby foods at the Standa? I did. At first I thought, oh, isn’t it cute that they put a nice picture of a bunny on the baby food jar? Then I realized it was a picture of what was in the baby food jar. Urk. I shouldn’t say that. I am sure the Italian babies think it is delicious. Of course, I never fed either of our children the meat baby foods because they smelled so awful. Maybe this explains why they are vegetarians now. Thankfully the jar of horsemeat baby food just said cavallo on it and skipped the picture.
On our way out of the store we stopped to investigate one of the street vendor’s stalls. She had all kids of house wares, and these stalls are my favorite. This one had everything from sponges to screwdrivers to lighters to batteries and a lot of strange hardware that I didn’t recognize. I have decided that if you are patient and look hard enough you can buy almost anything you could ever want from a street vendor. One day we saw a guy with a whole rack of fur coats. I am not even kidding.
I bought a couple of those little pop-up clothes hampers. I got them for the children so they would have someplace to put their toys and miscellaneous stuff besides all over the bedroom floor. Now they are full of the junky toys they purchased from street vendors and paper light sabers, broomsticks and other quadric equipment. And paper wands. The children are very creative. There is nothing they can’t do with a ream of copy paper and a roll of cellophane tape.
I also bought some AA batteries. They were a euro. I am a little worried about them frying my camera, but then I buy batteries from the dollar section at Target all the time and I have never had any trouble with those. I am just being paranoid.
In Formula One news today was the start of the last testing session before the Australian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton was first. I think Alonso was 7th. That is not good.
And speaking of the Australian Grand Prix, we will be in Venice when it takes place. Maybe we will have a television in our room and I can watch it very quietly with my earphones. I am hoping anyway. I have to check and see if our hotel has TVs in the rooms. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
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