We rent a car and do a Veneto giro. First, to Soave where there is a chocolate festival (Mom buys a chocolate plumber’s wrench for Don MacGlashen) and then on to Vicenza. We stumble on a large international show of children’s book illustrators in the lower gallery space of Palladio’s Basilica. Very inspiring- gets Mom and I talking about our Harriet “fish hat” idea. My little niece Harriet has this incredible fish-shaped hat which we want to use as the pivot for a kid’s book. Mom sent me a ton of photos of her posing in this hat- must do some sketches. Ted can write up the story, perhaps?