Fairy doors, cupcakes, and being thousand of miles from home...

This week was probably the hardest one I have had here in Ann Arbor. For a few days, I was overcome with the fact that I am thousands of miles from home and from anyone I know and anyone who really knows me. It has been hard to accept that sometimes I am going to feel lonely and there is no aunts houses to go to and hangout with cousins, or dad's business to go and read people magazine at, nor are there those "places" like the cross and the beach that bring comfort. I am not very patient when it comes to accepting that making good friends and finding those "go-to places" takes time. I since have snapped out of the lonely feeling and have decided to really work on accepting that these things take time and that maybe in the mean time I am supposed to learn something from this whole "alone" feeling.

On a brighter note, this Friday I discovered an "Ann Arbor" thing that is quite interesting. My roommate Courtney and I were on main street walking to the cupcake store after having a lovely dinner at the Brewing Company when I spotted what looked like a tiny little door in a wall. Some people were crowded around it and I really didn't think that much of it, mostly because I was very caught off guard by it. At some point I said something to Courtney and she ever so casually said, "Oh it's a fairy door".......ummmm what? I asked question after question wondering what the heck these things are for and why in the world they exist and all she kept saying was "I donno, they are just fairy doors." On our way back to the car she took me to another fairy door sight.

In this particular case the fairy door is right next to the big door however this is not always the case.

And here it is up close. Still I am wondering WHY in the world these doors exist. From what I have read so far a man in 1993 discovered these fairy doors in his house that was over a 100 years old when he did some remodeling. Since he discovered them people have put their own fairy doors in various places. There will be more on these fairy doors because I am determined to go on a little fairy door hunt.

I also must confess in this blog post that I have become a cupcakeaholic. It is an addiction I plan to do nothing about. Today, Kate and I went to our favorite cupcake store Just Baked and were pleasantly surprised to find a "All cupcakes $1" sign out front. Since we were already going to spend around $6 on cupcakes, we decided to buy 6 and wow was that a good choice.

Anyone who comes to visit me I will buy you a cupcake!!!