Holy Week!

Holy Week:
- a lovely Seder dinner at Leni and Julie's on Palm Sunday
- Analeise reading during our church's Maundy Thursday service
- visiting the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Saint John's Bible exhibits at the Science Museum of Minnesota on Good Friday
- practice for the children-led Easter service at our church on Saturday (and an Easter egg hunt)
- Analeise and Brooke flying a kite with our housemate, Alizabeth
- decorating pysanki eggs on Saturday evening
- Easter baskets and the early service at our church on Easter Sunday... Brooke lit the Pascale candle, read prayers and helped with throwing balloons during a fun part of the service. Analeise led the "Time with Children."
- Easter breakfast at our church and Easter dinner with the Hearley's.

Happy Spring!

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Spring Break March 2010

Today we went to the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in St. Paul, Minnesota. If you're ever in the area, I highly recommend it. The girls loved the seals, who jumped up, apparently looking at them. The seals even spent time staring at them through the glass. Brooke also favored the giraffes and took quite a few photographs. I especially loved the baby orangutan and the water plants in the conservatory.

After Como Park, we headed for ice cream at Sebastion Joe's on Franklin Street in Minneapolis, less than 10 miles from the zoo. I'd recommend this spot as well. They've been making specialty ice creams for over 20 years, and while they offer approximately 30 flavors in their shop, they rotate options, with a selection of over 130 flavors at their disposal. Flavors we tried today: Nicolet Street Pot Hole (Kate - chocolate overload yumminess); Oreo (Brooke); Green Tea (Analeise); Danish Nut Roll (Bryan). If you visit us, twist my arm just slightly and we'll head to Sebastion Joe's, which, by the way, is quite close to the Walker Art Center, a modern art and sculpture museum.

Fulbright news!

We found out a week ago that Bryan's Fulbright application to teach at a university in Tampere, Finland was successful. We'll leave in August 2010!