Entries from May 2009 ↓

The move went well, the kitties are happy, I am disorganized, but all of the sunshine in this gigantic apartment is super!

I have more photos to upload and share someday. Just wanted to give a quick update.

My mom was in town last week and we took a road trip on Wednesday. It’s been a while since I’ve acted like a tourist.

Our first stop was Ruth’s German Haus for no real reason other than we like gawking at castles and chocolate. There was a lot of Christmas stuff, too.

Then we went to the Pottery Place, which is where Red Wing stoneware used to be manufactured. I think. This place was sort of dead, but the antique store was fun to look through.

We managed to take in the Mississippi River and surrounding scenery at Bay Point Park right before the torrential downpour of rain set in.

Then we went to Treasure Island—because there is no place better to take shelter during a rainstorm than at a casino.

(I took this photo of the casino entrance as we were leaving. The rain had stopped and the sun was shining again.)

This has pretty much been my weekend:

I am slowly packing up my house for another move across Minneapolis. By this time next week I’ll be living in Northeast Minneapolis again! It’s exciting, but happening really fast at the same time.

I was looking for some “background noise” while packing and stumbled across four seasons of Doogie Howser on Hulu.com—I’m almost finished watching the first season! I don’t remember this show at all, and I’m hooked. Another episode, another box packed…

I joined Nicki and Ellen at Mary’s apartment in south Minneapolis for brunch before the annual May Day Parade at Powderhorn Park on May 3rd.

I brought Monkey Bread, and Mary provided a delicious egg bake, fresh berries, yogurt and granola. Nicki prepared the first round of Bloody Marys (prepared with saké instead of vodka—it tasted much smoother).

It was a beautiful morning, so we took some time to enjoy Mary’s backyard, too.

Then we headed to the parade! We sat on someone’s hill and had a pretty good view.

Those who distributed parade programs had to dress crazy.

But there was a whole lot of other kinds of crazy, too. It was a fun event for people-watching! The parade is hosted (sponsored?) by the In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, so there were a lot of very creative “floats” and costumes.

I have even more photos from the parade on my computer (I need to ease up on the shutter button), so I may be adding more to the Flickr set as I get them organized.