Cupcakes!

It seems that the cupcake craze is everywhere, including Calgary. I walked to nearby Kensington on the weekend to try out Crave Cookies and Cupcakes. Not bad, although still prefer Magnolia. I tried 3 flavours of cupcake - The Princess (vanilla cake with strawberry icing), Crave-O-Licious (chocolate cake with blue butter cream icing), and Lemon-Lime Twist (lemon cake with lime icing).
The Lemon-Lime Twist is my pick of the three, the lemon cake keeps the icing from being overpowering. The cake texture is a little odd though, somewhat like angel food cake. The Princess was pretty good too, although I think I might prefer the version with chocolate cake. Crave-O-Licious was a disappointment, the chocolate cake really didn't compare to the Magnolia version.

Crave wins on the packaging front - you can see from the picture how well the cupcakes survived the 20min walk home, compared to cupcakes from Magnolia carried uptown on the subway.

Cupcakes from Crave:

Cupcakes from Magnolia:

Where in the world?

It's been so long since I've written anything that I was struggling to remember my passwords. Life has been very busy over the last few weeks, mostly because my friend Peta has been visiting. We had a great time together - a weekend in New York City, the best of Ithacan food (lots of Thai), and a trip to Niagara Falls. The Niagara Falls trip was a particular highlight because last time Peta was here in March 2004 we tried to go to the falls, but were stopped by a massive snow storm on the way. The trip this time was much easier.

And just in case I hadn't put enough miles on my car in the last two weeks, my friend Matt and I drove north on the weekend to hand deliver some Rolling Stones tickets. Can anyone guess where from the photo (extra points for anyone who gets the city as well as the country)?