Greek Eye

(Got up. Went to Farmer's Market, Water Lady shop, and Trader Joe's.)

We thought we'd go to Greek Festival on the last day of the 2-day event. And we seemed to have good luck streak for parking, just across street from the Greek Orthodox Church (on Park Ave).

As soon as we entered the festival, I saw a jewelry vendor and decided to take a look. Normally I don't buy jewelries. There they were: numerous glass Eyes that I've been looking for 3 years.

The "Evil Eye" is a good luck charm, which is supposed to look out for you, countering evil or envious eyes from others. My best friend P visited Greece 11 years ago and brought me a blue Greek eye as a gift. I'd been wearing it for all those years until about 3 years ago it finally broke.

I tried to search on the Internet and bid on eBay; however, the one I bought on eBay wasn't exactly the style I wanted -- a simple round blue eyeball. My mother-in-law knew I'd been wanting the eye for a long long time. She mentioned to me that one of her cousins working for US Olympics Committee and she would ask him to buy an eye while he's in Athens.

Well, I bought one right there at the festival ($15). The new one was slightly larger than the one I had before and the prong was 14k gold instead of sterling silver. I couldn't believe my luck.

The scale of the festival wasn't very big. I tired the grape leave things. John had lamb plate and 2 stuffed filo dough things. Oh, I couldn't remember what they were called. John had $9 lunch and mine, $5.50. Plus we each paid $2 for entry "donation."Greek food in town seemed to be expensive. The Greek Restaurant on Adams, for example, serves entrees for about $10 a plate.


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After Greek Fest we went to the Harbor Marine Supplies shop in Little Italy for getting a neat T-Shirt for John's dad. It's closed. I also wanted to get a few things from Fillipi's. Afterwards we went for some Gelato. John asked me if I wanted to take the ferry to Coronado. It's only 10 to 2pm but I was tired already. (Not recovered from previous day?) Still, I agreed to go. The ferries ran on every hour and we missed the 2pm one. It'd run too late for other things we wanted do for the day. We didn't know where to call water taxi but later got the phone number from the info booth.

We went back to Normal Heights and would like to shop for some 2nd hand books. But most bookstores were closed. We went in one but John didn't find anything he had in mind.

After we got home, John took a nap. I organized a lot of printed articles and downloaded pictured to my computer.

John did dishes and later I made pasta with green bell peppers, sun dried Cal olives, artichoke hearts and vermouth, for dinner. John topped the baguettes with anchovies. We tried to pair foods with Duck Pond Pinot Gris, Columbia Crest Chardonnay, and Chianti. Pinot Gris went the best with anchovies; Chardonnay held up to the strong flavor of the olives; Chianti matched with the dish quite well overall, surprisingly with artichoke hearts. John said nothing worked for the olives because the flavor was too strong.

LA and Detroit (NBA Championship series) game was on and that's pretty much the entertainment for the night. I was still sore all over.