Today I graduated with my second Masters in Industrial and Systems Engineering. This time I did not attend the big ceremony- it was fun the last time because I had so many friends graduating with me. But there really is no order to it- you print your name clearly on a slip of paper and get to walk across the stage and shake hands with people you never met.

Instead, Mark and I drove around town looking for garage sales and found plant sales all over the place. This is the weekend that the Olbrich garden has their spring plant sales. And all surrounding neighborhoods have community plant sales. The arboreteum started off our tour (I had seen signs posted above University Ave. for several weeks) and we got the most adorable blueberry bush- now I have seen blueberries in the store, but had no idea what a blueberry bush looked like- I can't wait to see the blossoms and have our own fresh berries!

Overall we hit 5 sales and happily got some presents for our garden and my parents (shh- it's a secret). The last sale we hit we really cleaned up- they were ready to call it a day and everything was half off- so we got some sage and lily of the valley for our plot. I love all the amazing community events that Madison has to offer!

To wrap up our celebration, we headed over to the olive garden for a delicous salad, I got a chicken, roasted red bell pepper and roasted garlic pasta dish with the cutest pasta, unfortuantely Mark couldn't get his first choice dish and sampled off some of mine. Overall a very relaxing and enjoyable celebration of 3 years of hard work.