Mall stuff and flood aftermath pictures!

Today Conor and Annie Cate have school and Tara has work.  The flood is over and c'e' il sole (it's sunny) except for some persistent haze in places.  Gene and I went to two centri commerciali (malls).  First we went to this one:

 AC needed due quaderni (two notebooks) with centimeter-square graph paper inside, un rosso ed un blu (one red and one blue), and same-colored covers for each.  (Her school is very specific about the students' supplies).  We didn't find what she needed, although there were  lot of quaderni there:

We saw this great Nutella display:

And here's baby food, some coniglio (rabbit) and some struzzo (ostrich):

Here's Gene posing like a lame mannequin:

Since we didn't find what we were looking for, we went to the second centro commerciale, the one with gatti living outside like this one:

...and these stairs inside:

This display of Ferrero Rochers looked very familiar to me:

Some mall foto:

These are packaged tramezzini, little crustless sandwiches.

Real estate companies don't always list prices.  Singola is a single-family home,
trifamiliare is a three-family home, and mini is a studio or loft.

We didn't find the quaderni we needed at that mall either, so we left to go to a separate store (where we still did not find the quaderni.  Here are some foto of areas that are normally dry but have been flooded for the past few giorni:

Gene says this is way less water than there was a few days ago.

Tara roasted maroni (chestnuts) last notte.  She scored them* horizontally first, so they ended up with happy smiles:

*Fun Fact of the Giorno (day) from me, Bridget:  Scoring chestnuts before roasting them keeps them from exploding!