Spring has sprung... someplace else!

It's snowing here in Anchorage today. This is going to make for a messy ride home as the temps are right around freezing, so the road grime is not frozen solid and will be coating all vehicles. At least it won't be dark on my evening commute and I won't need to have functioning, grime-free headlights.

I brought in a lovely Chocolate & Peanut Butter cake to work today for our March Birthday celebration. We only have one March birthday, and he's a fan of Reese's PB cups. Thus the cake. To make up for the fact that the cake might not actually taste that great (for some reason, the recipe which I downloaded off the web didn't call for any eggs??), I brought in my lovely glass cake stand to give it a dramatic presentation. The cake wasn't too bad actually. Not light and fluffy, but the PB frosting was divine so it boosted up the cake's flavor.

I was reading an article in the Anchorage Daily News today about a couple of young folks who decided it would be fun to drive from Anchorage to Edmonton (in Canada) to go to the Mall for Spring Break. They took a wrong turn just north of where we live and ended up stuck on an unmaintained Alaska Hwy 160 miles out of their way. People have apparently died on that road under similar circumstances. What were these dimwits thinking? The girl driving was 20 and her male passenger was 16. Who in their right mind lets a 16 year old go off on a 2000 mile journey through AK and Canada in the winter to go to a MALL?