Waving from Holland: (mostly cover band) Jazz Festival!

What a great day!
A rough schedule of my wonderful happy excellent day:
8:00 finally roll out of bed after laying around, enjoying the luxury of sleeping in
......stretch, shower, eat breakfast of greek yogurt, muesli, fresh strawberries and donut peaches, sample the oatmeal and settle the debate between Claire & Oliver (do the raisins taste like nutmeg, or lavendar).

O is ready to rock

10:40 shopping on my own. Mission: FIND mozzarella cheese for pizza. Meandering about the town's center, I am delighted to walk through an scope out the flea market and Saturday farmer's type market. I loaded up with kilos and kilos of more fresh fruit. I ducked into a cheese specialty shop and bugged the very sweet young clerk about finding my precious mozzarella. No luck ("Is there anywhere in Delft that I can get mozzarella that's not soft?" I ask. "No," she shakes her head). I walk out with a jar of wet mozzarella, parmesan-reggiano, and sun-dried tomatoes instead. I find a very cute kitchen/bath shop and purchase an ariated pizza pan, then walk out of the shop balancing the many kilos of fruit, now leaking mozzarella jar, and other tubs of pizza fixings on top of my new pizza pan, smiling because of the warm sun shining on me and smitten with how darn cute everything in this town is.

12:15 Arrive home to have lunch with the family, who had just returned on their own outing of buying a bike seat for Oliver, and a shark tooth for Jasper that he found at the flea market. Success for all shoppers, today.

Annika's first concert!

1:00 Hang my laundry out to dry on my balcony, then set up a lounge area also on the balcony for me to sit and read in the hot sun while sipping many glasses of lemon water. Beyond the terrace is the sound of the Jazz Festival in full swing, and I look forward to exploring it later with the family.

2:00 make pizza dough

4:45 Take off for the Jazz Festival with the family. We find a stage where a young band is covering various songs from the 60s (i.e. I got sunshine on a cloudy day, You make me feel like a natural woman). While stoked to see that most of the musicians are wearing sunglasses while they play, Oliver covers his ears to muffle the noise. We all get popcicles and continue to wonder from stage to stage, scattered about the streets of Delft. I kept a tally of the number of bands covering Stevie Wonder songs. I end up leaving the group early to find the final ingredients to our pizza dinner (no feta, but I found fresh basil and Holland's version of shredded mozz. cheese in a bag).

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Covering "You make me feel like a natural woman"

6:30 We sit down to have a pizza and pasta dinner with our staple, "Change the World or Go Home" glass of rose. While very different from my pizzas back at home, I am satisfied with how the pizza turned out, and look forward to making more on a weekly basis. The boys loved the cheese pizza!

8:30 After cleaning up, I head out alone to check out more of the Jazz Festival. It had cooled off a little bit now that it was dusk, and I enjoyed snapping photos of Delft at sunset. The little streets and markt was now bustling with beautiful jazz lovers, from the very young to old.

9:30 When my tired feet brought me home, Claire and Alex traded me places, and went out to enjoy their own jazz walk.

10:45 Rank the best bands and count the Stevie Wonder tally with Claire and Alex before heading to bed.