Breakfast at Blackbird Cafe in South Minneapolis. The daily special: Root vegetable hash with roasted kale and bacon, topped with eggs over easy, hollandaise sauce and dried cherry tomatoes.
Outside the St Joseph chapel at the Basilica, which has a Saturday morning confession hour. About fifteen of us in line.
Afterwards, a nice peaceful time in the church proper. The Basilica of St. Mary is America's first basilica, did you know that? I drive by it almost every day; I should stop in more often. The clerestory windows are beautiful, and just look at that wonderful altar and canopy. People were quietly taking down the Christmas greenery around the periphery of the church; I was glad that they had not yet touched the greenery in the center; it almost looked like the trees and flowering branches had grown up there around the altar.
Then a trip to the gym to try out my new, less-cushioned running shoes, expressly recommended for forefoot running. Dig that color!
(Shoe is the Saucony Kilkenny, which I had to buy a size and a half larger than my usual size. It is a cross-country flat racing shoe.)
Later, a trip to the new location of Peapods, our favorite local boutique-y kids' store, for a new Maya Wrap baby sling. Peapods is great! They have an online store; check it out next time you need to buy a gift for your crunchiest friend's baby shower, or some cloth diapers, or natural baby toys, or a breastpump.
And then I swung home to pick up my 7-year-old boy for a trip to another local store I love, Shoe Zoo, for dress shoes AND gym shoes. I remembered to bring my email coupon, and found the dress shoes in the outlet store, so I managed to save some money.
Some of which we immediately turned around and spent on cappuccino and chai.
Day's not over yet… maybe I'll post some more later.
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