Peťa and Evan have brought some cherries from their garden. The “Totally Normal Family” has come to invite us to a birthday party on Latrán. Věra is fixing to bake a cake, the kids are mixing, while the other mothers are pouring out the tub after the outdoor bath. It’s Sunday – laundry day. Around noon it still looks like this is going to be a quiet day, but then the Jírů girls show up. We goof around with a water pistol – what else is there to do in this heat? It looks like the locals don’t hang around the downtown on the weekends much.

Yesterday’s musical production at the neighbors was, fortunately, bearable, and so we skipped our Saturday evening move to our regular home. Over at the other end of Široká, they’ve scored, too – it’s also bearable. Josef and Pepa go for a walk to rock Katka to sleep, and like any good Krumlov kid, she’s out in a minute.

If Věra wasn’t visible on camera for a whole hour, that’s because she was trying to make a birthday cake – three times. She was responding to Mrs. Jirmusová’s challenge, who discovered during the job interview that Věra was not exactly a master at cooking and baking. The first time, she didn’t flour the form, the second time she greased it but noticed that she hadn’t floured it, and when she poured the batter there the third time she realized that she hadn’t floured the form. This isn’t normal. This doesn’t usually happen, because she usually doesn’t bake.

At the successful birthday party, Věra gets assigned the task of watching Mr. Bodlák’s dog. He had originally left him tied up while going shopping, but a tourist fed him ice cream, so now he didn’t want to leave anything up to chance.