It is the shoulder season and unseasonable high temperatures. With the snow all gone and temps in the sixties it is too far to drive north to find so but a short drive south to find spring. We headed to Madtown! Drove down Friday after work and school and were able to make a weekend out of it. We took in a cancer research fund raising UW basketball game, in which they won and then spent the rest of the day walking around the State street and Capitol area. There were plenty of shops, including a rare book store, to be perused and the search continued for the perfect Bucky sweatshirt. We hiked through plenty of stores including Fjallraven were Grace scored a Swedish flag to wave the rest of the day. We hoofed it up to the hill to Bascom hall and took in the whole splended spring spectacular that was the weekend. Uber trips with music that was bumping and iconic pizzas delivered to the hotel to feed the bellies that swimming had emptied rounded out a great day. The morning came slow, lazy and relaxed just as it should. We just didn't want the trip to end so a short walk to a neighborhood coffee shop and then a trip to the Madison Winterfest. The festival was pretty much a bust as we assumed but there was great octopus sculpted in the snow. It felt as if we traveled two months into the future to capture a little bit of spring. Snow in the forecast now but longer days show that winter is coming to an end.
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