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Angel & Faith #6 Steve Morris Cvr (p. 28 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Btvs Season 9 Freefall #5 Morris Cvr (p. 29 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
X-Factor #230 Xregg (p. 73 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics

Angel & Faith #5 Steve Morris Cvr (p. 26 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Btvs Season 9 Freefall #4 Morris Cvr (p. 27 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
X-Factor #228 (p. 63 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics
X-Factor #229 Xregg (p. 63 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics
Kick-ass 2 #6 (MR) (p. 75 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics
Too Much Coffee Man #1 Facsimile Ed (MR) (p. 257 – SRP: $3.99)     Boom! Studios
Rasl #13 (MR) (p. 263 – SRP: $3.50)     Cartoon Books

For some strange reason Too Much Coffee Man is not part of my collection. It will be now.

On our way home the hotel the wife and I decided to stop by the ARoS Art Museum in Aarhus. We had been talking about it for a long time but never got around to it and after a relaxing weekend without any kids it seemed appropriate to finish it off by being sophisticated (or at least pretending to).

The new rainbow thingie at the top of the building is an incredible sight – even if I haven’t got the slightest clue as to what the artist was trying to say with this work. There was also an exhibit where you were walking around in rainbow colored fog with very low visibility. Combine that with a bunch of school kids running around in there and you get quite an exciting experience.

The wife and I decided that we deserved some alone time so we handed of the kids to my in-laws and went for a weekend get-away at Hotel Vejleford.

The hotel and spa was simply great. It was a weekend of relaxation, beautiful nature and great food. I highly recommend it – and while the wife was getting an hour-long massage I managed to sneak off and go read some comics

Angel & Faith #4 Rebekah Issacs Var Cvr (p. 28 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Btvs Season 9 Freefall #3 Jeanty Var Cvr (p. 29 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Dollhouse Epitaphs #5 (of 5) Phil Noto Cvr (p. 48 – SRP: $3.50)     Dark Horse
X-Factor #227 (p. 68 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics

Don’t expect anything about electronics here – by flip-flop I mean the shoe.

I get home from work on Friday and I notice that the daughter’s flip-flop is looking kind of lonely.

I feel so lonely...

I ask her about it and get the reply “it’s on the roof” as if that’s the most natural thing in the world. She goes on to explain how it got up there and apparently it all makes perfect sense to her but all I am left with are more questions. Kids.

The roof, the roof...

Luckily for me the son is an avid collector of all kinds of stick, twigs and branches so I pick out a nice long stick with a V-shape at the end and lift the flip-flop down from the roof. Yay, dad is a hero!

Together again

Not the most interesting story but it felt absurd when I was in the middle of it, so I had to write it down.

A made some muffins for the vacations. They turned out quite nice even though it was my first time making a real frosting. I also experimented with  putting a piece of fudge in the middle of a few of  the muffins but that can’t be recommended – it merely turned into a small lump a the bottom of the muffing and not a nice caramel center as I had hoped.

Muffins
300g butter
300g sugar
5 eggs
1dl milk
300g flour
100g cocoa powder
2 tbsp baking powder

Melt the butter and mix it well with the sugar. Add the eggs one at a time. Stir in the milk. Add the flour, cocoa and baking powder.

Pour into muffin tins and bake at 180C for about 15-20 minutes.

Frosting

120g butter
200g brown suger
1.4dl milk

375g confectioners’ sugar (at least…)
0.4dl milk

Melt the butter and stir in the brown sugar. Heat to boiling and reduce the heat. Boil and stir for 2 minutes then add 1.4dl milk. Once again heat to boiling and remove from heat. Let it cool for about 30 minutes.

Pour into a large bowl and mix in the confectioners’ sugar and the 0.4dl milk. Mix it thoroughly (at least 5 minutes). Add more confectioners’ sugar if needed to get the right consistency.

Put the frosting in the refrigerator for 15-30 minutes before applying it to the muffins.

To make muffins filled with frosting it is easiest to simply cut a cone out of the top of the muffin, fill with frosting and then reinsert the cone. Cover with frosting on top to hide any evidence of tampering.

Place muffins with frosting in the refrigerator to allow frosting to harden.

The son had spent some time talking about making a popcorn cake based on his own recipe (which for some reason included a banana but no popcorn). We set out to find a recipe and ended up with this (we only made a small cake using a quarter of this):

50g butter

1.25dl vegetable oil

500g marshmallows

4l of popcorn

500g peanuts

500g M&M’s

Melt the butter and oil in a pan. Add marshmallows and let them melt as well. Mix in the remaining ingredients and pour into a container of an appropriate size. Out in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

The result was… interesting… The wife and daughter actually liked it. I would go so far as to say that it wasn’t completely disgusting. The daughter is talking about making one for her birthday.

I wanted to do a simple experiment with the daughter and show her how dissolving a huge amount of sugar in water would allow us to make rock candy. However it failed in the most boring way. Not a single crystal was created. Maybe it had something to do with me trying to add color and flavor? Next time it will be just the basic.

There should have been a huge amount of sugar crystals growing on this stick...

The daughter wanted to spend part of the vacation doing experiments so we decided to start with her doing some basic science: measuring, mixing, filtering, etc. It was a success and she was really interested in the different things. We never really got around to more interesting experiments but at least now she has a basic understanding of what skills are needed.