Winter Fun

I can't count how many blog posts I've started with "I'm still alive!" This is the worst I think it's been since coming to law school, and I have no excuse because I haven't been all that busy, considering. Oh well, I'm back. And I have pictures!

Andy and I went to an art display of Ice Shanties on frozen Medicine Lake. People here fish year round, and in the winter, at least they have the common sense to take a little hut with them to keep warm in out on the frozen lake. Some artists banded together to create artsy ice shanties and invite people out to visit them. They were really neat! However, out on the frozen lake, there's nothing to break the wind, so it felt like about 5 or 10 degrees, even though on land, it was closer to 25 degrees.

The one of me with the green moustache and goatee is from one of the interactive art projects. There was a daily newspaper, all done with hand-set metal type on a letter press; a dance hall, complete with disco balls and DJ; and a vacation get away, with headphones playing beach sounds! There were lots of other neat things, but those were my favorites. The photo of Andy wearing the walrus hat was part of the ice bicycle area (not sure what the hats had to do with it other than to be silly, but still fun). You can see a pair riding the tandem walleye bicycle above.

All in all, we're hanging in here, with both Andy and I in our LAST semester of school! It's been pretty bearable since the weather has been very mild for winter, and we actually have some free time again.