Hot Dogs

This is going to be another abbreviated post.  It is so hot here.  And this week is forecasted to get even hotter.  I don't know why but I feel like we've been mere amateurs with our Central Valley dry heat silliness.  This is hibernation weather.  A went out to buy a few items in the afternoon yesterday and he said the streets were deserted.  That changed when the sun went down, but the heat barely took notice.  

Anyway, briefly this is what we did.  A and I went out to this outdoor market so I could maybe look at clothes.  After traversing the entire thing, I finally found a vendor who had some genuinely unique things and I stupidly decided to try them on.  In their dressing room. In a van.  This is not the first time I have done this, and this van was nicer because they'd partitioned off individual spaces.  And the woman whose shop it was was so very nice.  And the selection was great.  It was the trying on that was like being in a sauna.  I gave up after the first shirt.  It was like getting dressed under water, hot water.  I did buy that shirt though.  

After that we headed back to the apartment and stayed there until almost 1900.  On the way back, we saw some overheated dogs, I mean literally panting and shaking and generally in trouble.  Everyone here has a dog.  I can't even imagine what it's like to be covered In fur in this weather.  

Later, when we went out again it was still extremely hot but all of Bologna was promenading with and without their dogs.  One dog was passed out on a sidewalk, mostly in the shade.  

We walked back down to the covered market to see if I could find the wonderful clothing stall again, but it was closing down and the friendly woman whose shop it was had already left.  The market returns on Friday so I will try to get there one last time before we depart.

After that we headed to the piazza to watch the movie where there was standing room only once everyone arrived.  Luckily we had secured a table at a cafe on one of the sides of the piazza.  These are the pictures I took from that table while the square was filling up.

Oops, that's a t-shirt we got for N at the covered market.  It's a cartoon character from my childhood.  Does anyone remember that dog's name?  And no, it's not Leonard.

I know, not very informative but I was too hot to do much else.  These actually were texted to Ricky while we were waiting for 2001 A Space Odyssey to start.  It was the last night of the film festival so the square was pretty crowded.  

And here, apropos of nothing, is a statue A and I thought was funny in the entry to a building, possibly an underground mall.  And that's about all I can manage at the moment.  I hope things are cool with you, if you'll pardon a dumb pun.