I should have uploaded these last two several days ago. These are the pictures we took Sunday before Brandi left. Here she is standing in front of a gigantic snow mound in Kohl's parking lot. They pile these mounds up in the parking lots and then when the mounds encroach on valuable parking spaces (One row around the businesses perimeter seems to be acceptable) the front loader shows up after hours and they load the snow mound into a dump truck and take it somewhere.

 
This will be completely flat once all the snow lets off. I told her when she comes back this summer we'll have to bring her back to the same spot and shoot an after photo.

This is where we go most Friday nights. Magillycuddy's is a cute small Irish themed pub in Anoka across the parking lot from the river. They have great fish and chips, Guinness cheese fries, and corned beef pot pie. Yum! And their tap is always buy one~get one. Seriously, they bring you two at a time. They drink so much more beer in Minne than the South.