After a weekend filled with festivals, we slow down with leftovers. We re-enjoy the ratatouille from earlier in the month. It was very good then and is very good tonight. To freshen the meal, we also eat a nice little salad with walnuts.

The festivities began with the company picnic for Chris’ new employer. It was easiest to describe the event to the kids as a “festival” because of the moon bounce, which everybody knows are only at festivals. It was a little rainy, but everyone had a good time. Our daughter had an especially good time getting her face painted—her whole face painted.

As is customary for our family on Sundays, we began today at the Baltimore Farmers’ Market. A little later we journeyed to our second festival in as many days—the Baltimore Italian festival. Oddly enough the Italian festival had no moon bounce that we could find. The kids did not seem to mind, though. Unlike other “Italian” festivals that we have attended this year, the one held in Baltimore’s Little Italy comes closest to being like those from Robin’s childhood in Brooklyn. We had some fried calamari, some pizza, gelati and Italian cookies. The only things missing were zeppoles.

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