I was so wet after the last day of the Wet & Wild camp that it took me several hours to dry. Since it was warm, I didn't mind much. This came about because we played with water balloons, and because of an activity that is meant to show kids how we all take our water supply for granted - in other words, we hauled lots of water up a hill, pretending that we were villagers taking bathwater to a very smelly chief who lived up on top of the mountain. Of course, the kids discovered that there was a faucet at the top of the hill (an expansive lawn on a slope) and used it to keep refilling their cups so they could soak me. Definitely a good way to keep cool on a warm day.

Today, we're just kind of hanging around until we figure out what to do. The boys don't want to go to the beach for some reason. We might go to the library instead.

I'm listening to the new Eleni Karaindrou soundtrack for Theo Angelopoulos' The Weeping Meadow. This has the same lonely melancholy feel that her other scores have, with drifting sounds provided by violin, piano, accordion, harp, lyra, double bass, french horn, violincello, and the Hellenic Vocal Ensemble. Jen says that every time she hears Karaindrou, she pictures Harvey Keitel, due to his appearance in Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze, also scored, of course, by Karaindrou. Beautiful music for gray, rainy days or, as the case is here, imagining gray, rainy days.