What I Did on My Spring Vacation, By Pam

Your scrapblog editor is on an exotic, fun, relaxing vacation. Where this time, you wonder? Paris? Manhattan? Nope -- Lake City, Minn.! This locale may sound familiar to some of the cousins, or at least it better. The scrapblog editor once couldn't wait to escape the place; now she just wants to hang there forever, watching cars go by and spring flowers emerge. Some snapshots: The scrapblog editor, along with senior historical researcher E.W. Sprick and very senior adviser emeritus Anna Sprick Smith, spent Tuesday on the backroads of Wabasha County sleuthing out pretty vistas and Sprick roots. The deepest ones were at the old Sprick farm west of Theilman, Minn., which now belongs to the Clark family. Your correspondent gawked at the L-shaped farmhouse, bonded with the seven Clark daughters and their newborn farm animals, including this goat kid, so new to the world that it still had its umbilical cord attached.

In this photo of a beautiful table spread with delicious food and artistically folded napkins located just feet from two priceless blue plates, you may also notice some Spricks. Aunt Mavis cooked up a lovely dinner for the roots-hunters after their grueling day out on gravel roads. That's E.W. serving up brats and vegie burgers and Anna preparing to say grace, which, shockingly, was not in German. Alle Augen were warten on the food, it seems.