Random March stuff

The past week has been one of the slow good ones. I took some days off to hang with my sister, and we have been shopping, eating giant macaroons at "tea house", drinking coffee, and talking - a lot! Sometimes it feels like I am missing out on spending time with her because we live so far away, but in reality I would not give up visits like this for anything.
And while strolling in Ann Arbor we found the little puppet exhibition made by Lucas class. Of course he made the Bailey look a like to the right......

We have been grocery shopping. Usually we go to Aldi, but because our cabinet were already full on the verge of bursting open, Kristian and I treated ourselves to a trip to Meier. And look what we found:

For those of you who do not get it, it is a meat blend that we use a LOT in Denmark and whenever we have tried to substitute it has not tasted right. But Saturday we got to eat the best meatloaf ever in the US! Kristian and I  have also been to REI to get my birthday present. Since I broke my arm last year I have been terrified of falling. But now I have super sturdy hiking boots and no excuse to go on rough trails. Even in icy slushice

And while we were out in the icy slushice testing my boots, we did find evidence that spring might eventually be here:

And despite work looking like this for quite some days:

I still got on my bike Friday morning to commute and was rewarded by this view at Huron river: