This weekend is not looking good.  It still hasn't stopped raining and in fact there has been serious flooding in Veneto, the region we are driving to tomorrow for the concert.  It is the rainiest spring on record.  Oh joy.  Then to add to my disappointment, our lovely big lunch in the country was cancelled.  Our host has a sore throat.  Oh suck it up!  All that good behavior this week preparing for today, for nothing. 

Last night we went to the International Book Fair which is in Torino every year.  We'd never been and it sounded intriguing.  It wasn't.  It also wasn't very international.  A few countries were represented in booths selling books by their well known authors but it was mostly small publishing houses trying to get their products out there.  Plus I must admit that though I can read Italian, I don't read it well and I don't enjoy it.  Reading in Italian is a task.  Reading in English is a pleasure.  I'm simply too old to start now.  My learning new tricks brain has closed it's doors and locked up.  We were also dragging Grace around which was a real treat.  14 and bored at 10 o'clock at night.  We treated ourselves to ice-cream on the way home.  Ice cream makes everything better.

I assume we are heading out tomorrow even if it is raining, which is probable.  Poor kids.  Their first concert in the pouring rain?  I'm hoping for a miracle from the weather Gods.  xxoo me