Food and (American) Football

So aro has given me a homework a assignment a while ago to do a blog and like usual I get it in at the latest possible. We've been here around two weeks now and so we've had to figure out some food options. It's pretty basic for breakfast with cereal and eggs and toast, etc. but aro decided to get fancy and try some pancakes this morning which were pretty good, so i'll probably up it to omelets pretty soon. For lunch and dinner we've been making a lot of pasta with some meat sauce because it's pretty easy and cheap. If you wanna grab something quick out to eat, for some reason there are a ton of pizza and kebab shops everywhere, so we have had some kebabs although the massive piece of meat on a rotating pole looks a little suspect. It's actually pretty good though and our teammates say it's quiet healthy too. We just found out Domino's has half off pizzas every Monday and Tuesday so that is a new option for us. There is one thing that really grinds my gears here though and it's that none of these places to eat will give you ice water, or not that I've seen yet. Most of them sell bottled water and a few rarely will give you tap water upon request. Aro and me were sitting down eating at a pizza place one day and I asked the guy for some water and he gave me a glass of tap water which was fine (prefered ice with it but better than nothing), than another guy comes in and I ask for a refill on the tap water and he wanted to charge me 5 or 10 kroner (1-2$) so we ended up just refilling in the bathroom sinks instead. So we are gonna have to get the ice trays going at the apartment.

There has been one place however where the food and water and atmosphere couldn't have been better, and that was last Sunday when we were at our team chairman's house Kim. Kim and his wife are hosting one of our teammates Axel and they had me and aro and Jaime from the women's team over to finally get to watch some NFL games. Since we are 6 hours ahead of eastern time in the US, the early games didn't start until 7 so they made us an excellent dinner with more than enough food to fill all of us up and them some, including dessert later on. All of us at his house and some others are actually doing a pick'em league against each other, where you pick who you think is gonna win every game so it got a little heated once the games began. I must say I had an excellent week 1 but it was just a practice round unfortunately. It was so great to be able to watch a game rather than just follow updates of it on the computer for once. Of course aro was still checking updates every two minutes to see how poorly his fantasy players on other teams were doing. The announcers were in Danish which was kind of funny, but didn't really notice after a while just tuned them out. Me and aro made a very important purchase of an xbox and right now all we have is Madden so we are getting our football fix in through that as well. We drafted a team and picked up probably the biggest stud of the league, behind WR Bryan Walters of course, FB John Kuhn. Also nothing to do with the blog but be on the lookout out for the Panthers to potentially upset the Pack this weekend.

Quick update on the bike situation, they are rolling good these days, mine was stuck in first or second gear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esJPVkJDgAU (0:15-0:19, this came on one of our 2 english tv channels and that's what reminded me of) for a while so I had to pedal 5x as fast to attempt to keep up with traffic but all good now.

Always hyggeligt,

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