I saw that you guys have a new partnership with Frosty Boy. So cute. I grew up right across street from that. I have many a good memories of Frosty Boy. When I was a kid. My favorite was the pink bubblegum swirl soft serve. If I'm going to do hard serve, I'm a butter pecan girl. But yeah, I would knock on my dad's workshop door, and like beg for change all the time and he'd give me some change. And I'd go over to Frosty Boy, sometimes with friends. Actually, now that I think about it, I don't know who I would, I would definitely go with people but I don't remember who. Maybe my brother? Maybe the neighbors? Anyway, but yeah. You sit on the wall. Never sit on the tables. You always sit on the wall. You slide down it cuz that's the best. Yeah, I was very sad when they closed and then they were like some barbecue joint for a while. I'm thrilled that they've been back there. They're honestly probably one of the best places ice cream around town.

Yeah, good to see those folks in the Zoom call. There were six folks there. I find it kind of funny that like, as I recall like through High School, my friend group would just be changing constantly, you know, every semester you would switch classes and that would sort of switch your friend group. Or it would, you know, it would mutate your friend group. But like the friend group that I had senior year, that is still like the people from high school that I hang out with or reach out to, you know. It's like on this call, there were six people. One person's in the UK now. One person's in New York. I'm in Livonia. Two people are still in Ann Arbor and one person's in Detroit. And the other pattern that I noticed is like, I don't know, over the past few months, I've been kind of thinking. Just feeling like behind in life in a weird way. This is getting heavy, Michigan Diaries. I didn't realize this was going to happen, but like I live in a little apartment like I don't know. I just have this feeling like I should own a house or something. And like have a wife and have kids. Like, I hung out with my friend this past week. He was my roommate in college. He's like the same as me, he's single, working professional, doesn't have kids. And like same thing with virtually all the people on this Zoom call. Like that was, it's just interesting cuz that's, how would you call them? I don't know, it was just my crew in high school and like two of them finished PhDs. They are not married. Don't have kids. The other people who are working are not married, but they are in long-term relationships. Also don't have kids. So it's just funny, like, I guess maybe, I don't know, maybe I'm comparing myself to my step-sisters, and they had kids and got married, you know, in their twenties. But yeah like my my social group that I was forged from, they're all very similar to me now. So that's, I just find that kind of funny. Like fast forward, twelve years or dude, more than twelve years. I graduated high school '07. Oh my God, fourteen years. Coming up fifteen years. I started getting gray hair in my twenties…

So this week, my husband and I took a little vacation, or I should say, try to take a little vacation and we went to Grand Rapids, just about two hours west of here, northwest of here. And I have to say, having our, our, our trip was made a little more challenging by the weather, because we wanted to do some things outside and it rained an awful lot. So some of those things weren't possible and we even ended up coming home a little early. But our last day because we were casting about for things to do. I saw that there was a store in Wyoming, Michigan, which is like a suburb in the west of Grand Rapids. And they said that they serve -- that they're an importer and they had a lot of products from the Netherlands. And so I was intrigued by that since my family's half Dutch, and so we drove out there and when we got in, and I was looking around at all the stuff, I saw that they had almond patties. And almond patties are a traditional Dutch baked good that I always associate with being at my grandmother's place, visiting my grandmother's house in Orange City, Iowa, which as I think I've mentioned before is a town that was like founded by Dutch settlers and still has a very strong Dutch identity. It's not unlike Holland, Michigan in that. Anyway, one of the bakeries there makes these fantastic almond patties. And I've never had them anywhere else and I've never seen them anywhere else, and it's probably been twenty years since I've had one, possibly more. So I saw that they had some there. And what was really interesting to me is that these that they had were from Iowa. They were frozen obviously brought in on some truck or something, I don't know if Michigan people just don't -- just don't make almond patties, maybe it's more of an Iowa thing, whatever. We got some, and thawed one out and took a bite, and it was just like exactly as I remembered, and it just took me back to eating them as a kid and eating them when I was in Orange City, and it was just like a great memory and like a fantastic taste they are very rich and delicious and I really like them.