{"id":828,"date":"2018-04-14T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/christyandersonbrekken\/?p=828"},"modified":"2018-04-14T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:26:03","slug":"april-12-spring-downtown-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/christyandersonbrekken\/2018\/04\/14\/april-12-spring-downtown-date\/","title":{"rendered":"April 12: Spring Downtown Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring! I guess Ragnarok is not coming this year after all. Breaking 50F this week with almost 15 hours of daylight!<\/p>\n

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Ted and I had a downtown date to shop for our almost-teenager. We enjoyed a stroll through Bakklandet, stopping for lunch alfresco at Kalas & Canasta.<\/p>\n

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Then stopping for coffee and cake at the historic Baklandet Skydsstation.<\/p>\n

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Then came home and brought the chairs out to the balcony to enjoy the weather.<\/p>\n

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We also picked up Nora’s soccer team warm-ups downtown, so now we are a house divided, just like those Beavers-Ducks households–unbelievable, look at the colors! But even though we are Utleira-h\u00e5ndball and Othilienborg-fotball, we are united as Brekkens.<\/p>\n

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Nora’s team is now practicing outside twice per week, so I walked her over to the field, about 10 minutes from our house on a pedestrian path. She can walk home all by herself. Getting all grown up.<\/p>\n

It feels so warm and spring-like outside but there is still so much snow on the north and west-facing slopes that don’t get much direct sun throughout the day.<\/p>\n

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