Back in New Rome, we'd be celebrating Quinquatria right now. Yesterday would have been the peaceful today, and today would have started the four days of gladiators and battles. It was always a lot of fun, and in New Rome we made sure that people didn't get killed very often.
Too bad Annabeth's not here, since it was a celebration of her mother - or, well, the Roman incarnation of her mother, who is actually nothing like her mother at all. But we won't go there.