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Japanese Festival

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Japanese Garden’s Zig-Zag Bridge

We biked to the Gardens for the Japanese Festival. We met there Joanie and her friends, Randy and Becky. We arrived first and since parking was no problem, we lit out towards the Japanese Gardens, which are at the far end. We had arrived at 10:15 and the doors only opened at ten, so when we made it there, things were still relatively uncrowded. I still had to wait a bit to get this shot sans people. We eventually met up with Joanie and then Randy and Becky. We had lunch at the festival. I chose poorly, since everyone else’s lunch looked better. Anne graciously shared some of hers.

This has been a rather soggy Labor Day weekend and as it winds up, we’ve started preparing for this coming work week. Anne will be at the elementary school tomorrow. That means that she’ll be setting her iPhone ducks a-quacking. They’ll start quacking at the butt quack of dawn, as opposed to the duck quack of dawn, because it has that certain, Je ne sais quack. I’ll bill you later for all of these fowl puns. These ducks were made for quacking and that’s just what they’ll do. One of these days these ducks will quack all over you. 😆

Oh the Humanity!

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New Grand Avenue Bridge Pylon

Our bicycle ride today was a lot like yesterdays. We rode again to the Festival of Nations in Tower Grove Park. This time though, we didn’t get caught in the rain. On the way over to the festival we detoured over to the new Grand Avenue Bridge. Grand had been closed, seemingly forever. It opened sometime this summer, while we were on vacation. Also on vacation this summer, our next door neighbor’s moved. We knew that they were not at home, but just figured that they were away on vacation. They’re moving ‘uptown’ or across to Clayton. They have two small daughters and must have figured that the Clayton schools would be better for them. Better? The Clayton school district certainly has more money than Maplewood-Richmond Heights, but we have improved so much in the past few years and there is no sign of that change abating.

We ate lunch again at the festival. Today we had Ethiopian and Romanian. I made a mistake in yesterday’s post; the beef dish with the unusual ‘bread’ was Ethiopian and not Nigerian. I learned this today when I went through the same line that I had yesterday. The so-called ‘bread’ is called injera. The ingredient that gives injera its unusual texture is a native Ethiopian grain called teff. While not gluten-free, teff is supposed to be gluten friendly, because it doesn’t have the offending component that make gluten a problem for some people. Who knew?