Coffee and an overdimensioned scone at Isles Bun in Uptown with Nancy before going to the hairdresser

High Profile Adventure Camp

This weekend we went to Mount Carroll in Illinois on an adventure camp. I drove the most of the way so Michael could work in the car. It took me seven hours to get there. Sunday it took Michael less than six hours to drive us back to Minneapolis...

Friday evening and all Saturday we had clinics on climbing, canoeing, mountain biking, and navigation and Sunday there was a eight hour adventure race. Michael raced with two men and I participated with a couple we met on the camp. 

My team: Mike, Roxane, and I, crossing a river, seven hours into the the race
(Michael finished an hour before this, so he had plenty of time to take pictures of us)  

Me, posing, after I noticed that Michael had found us.

Passing the river in order to enter a cave in find a check point

Do we really want to go in there?

We made it out alive...

On our way, on a bed of anemones

On our way to the third last check point, a zipline...
 Are we sure it's up that huge hill? 

Double checking...

Me, getting ready to jump

Wooohooo

Me, getting ready to do an ascend.

Each team had one robe

Roxane is helping me getting over the first part.

Almost there (notice, none of the others have moved :-D)

Me rappelling down on the other side of the rock, 
while Roxane is ascending it

Me, still on the top, trying to pluck up courage to begin the rappel,
Roxane almost down with her ascend..

Me, rappelling and swearing (...)

Pwwwh

Done after 8 hours and 5 minutes

Roxane and I after the race

Packed for Adventure Camp in Illinois

My first car ride as the chauffeur in a looong time :-$

Hangover pizza in the sun

Re-hydration and pizza in the (hot!) sun at Loring Kitchen right beside
where we live

Saint Patrick's Day

Yesterday we slept in and went mountain biking around noon. The weather was nice, the temperature was above 20 and we were ready for some of the many single tracks in the area - however they were not ready for us…We went to three; all of them were closed... So we ended up going on a less exciting drive on a dirt road. 

In the afternoon we went cycling around the city. It was Saint Patrick’s day and Downtown was crowded with people wearing green and partying. All cafés with tables outside were filled, it was amazing, the atmosphere was great. 

Me on the Stone Arch Bridge

After some cruising we went to a sushi/steak restaurant with a nice roof terrace and had a cocktail in a plastic cup.  

The cocktail turned into some sushi, a bottle of wine (served in plastic cups), more cocktails, a beer, and a Sunday morning headache...

Michael on the rooftop of SEVEN

After work beer at the local British pub

We're been enjoying the 25 celcius degrees mid March! on the rooftop terrace of Brit's pub....

Spring break in Utah

Michael and I at Solitude Ski Resort

Michael at a mogul piste

Enjoying a beer in the sun after a great day of skiing at Solitide

We had paid for three days of skiing and thus had one extra day to do whatever we wanted. We rented a car and drove south to see some of the hot springs in the Diamond Fork canyon. It was a bit more than an hour drive and an hour hike to get to the springs, the weather was not a good as the previous days, but still quite warm and the sun was up.

A Waterfall in Uinta National Forest, Diamond Fork river

Michael in the hotter spring

Michael and I in one of the hot springs

On the way back from the springs we stopped to see some of scenery 

Wednesday morning we went to Salt Lake City for a couple of hours before we had to go to the airport. We saw Temple Square and walked the streets that are made as a grid plan with streets going only south-north or east-west, and had a coffee and a hot chocolate at a café Downtown.

Michael in front of the Salt Lake Temple

Skiing in Utah, Salt Lake City

Day one was spend at the Snowbird ski resort. Fantastic weather, but the warm weather made the slopes a bit slushy in the afternoon.

SPRING BREAK

I have just had my last class of Comparative Health Systems which means that I have Spring Break.. Wooohooo!

Tomorrow at 11:15 we'll be on our way to Salt Lake City (the land of the Mormons) to go downhill skiing for a couple of days.

Summer in Minneapolis...

Termometeret viste 21°C - som i ENOGTYVE GRADER CELSIUS !!!!!

Mig der har taget yder-jakken af
og cykler hjem i en tynd (termo)jakke og
stadig har det alt for varmt...

Mig der forsøger at tage et billede af temperaturen

Mig der har spildt 10 minutter af mit liv på
 at prøve at  tage et billed af temperatur målingen 
(min telefon tror vist heller ikke på det) 

Free lunch and an interesting lecture.. I love this school!

Snow Tubing

Friday we went to Elm Creek north of Minneapolis to do Snow Tubing with eight Rovers. Wooohooo, it was great! Afterwards we had a beer and a snack at an Irish pub nearby. 

Så er der købt billetter til LA... 12. - 16. april.. Yaaay

Den næst største by i USA, varme, strand og Hollywood here we come! Wooohooo