Friday 23 August 2013

Food

Foooooooood...




Pancakes with bacon and apple covered in maple syrup.

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Pasta with shrimps and curry sauce.

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Egg and cheese muffins with minced beef. (Breakfast!)

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Lasagna with courgettes, paprika, tomatoes, corn, Parmesan and mozzarella.

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Frosted donuts.

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Pizza deLITE thin crust with a creamy garlic sauce, chicken, bacon, artichoke hearts, spinach, Parmesan and zest herbs.

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Failed cheesecake.

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Sonaj's super hamburgers with a couscous salad.

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Pasta with chicken, cream and sage.

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Sonaj's super ribs (not his, he MADE them) with chipotle marinade (and the couscous salad again).

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FROOOOOOOOOOOT LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS.

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Sunday 18 August 2013

Texas

So my second trip to America is... Texas. Texas is warm. Like, warm warm. There's almost nothing to see here except a few things in the bigger cities and did I mention that it's warm here?

Yet, I love it. I've been in Texas for 10 days now. I came here to be with Sonaj of course. The first days we spend in Dallas and now we're in Lubbock, where Sonaj studies. Most of our days are pretty boring but I'm enjoying every moment of it. Just being able to be here with him makes me happy.

Pictures!


On our first day we bought lunch and ate it somewhere at a lake. This was the view.

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We also visited the house Sonaj's famly is building. It's really big.

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'Wild' life!

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On our second day we hang out with a friend of Sonaj and went to a much bigger lake.

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And we had dinner at an awesome place called Genghis Grill where we had to assemble our own dish.

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At Sonaj's previous University, a tired squirrel.

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Soo, this is Sonaj's previous University. It was really big but it was nice. We even went inside and visited some professors and classrooms. There were no classes going on though.

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An entrance hall.

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A day later we went to Walmart! It was my first time in a Walmart and in a bigger supermarket in the US so I was really impressed by the stuff they had. Look at all those Oreos and Pringles!

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A 19 year old cat at the place we stayed one night.

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Sonaj's friend's house I stayed at for one night, it's like a house from an American movie!

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One evening we went to eat fish at the apartment of the boyfriend of one of Sonaj's friends. We also stayed there (half) a night.

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This guy said he'd take a picture of us but he took 20 of his own instead. Now he's on my blog. Pleh!

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The apartment was pretty cozy.

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'Skyline' of Dallas.

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We drove from like 4am till 1pm to go to Lubbock. I really liked it and we got to see a sunrise.

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Stopped for gas.

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The endless road.

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This is basically how Texas looks like. No trees and just endless views. I really like it. They even have cactus and wild sunflowers! And we saw a sort of desert fox.

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I finally got to try KFC when we got in Lubbock!

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Sonaj's huge TV. It's 3D and we watched The Wizard of OZ on it in 3D one night. Was really nice.

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I'm trying to give Sonaj healthy food so we mostly have fruit salad for breakfast. Yummy.

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Sushiii....

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I'll post more pictures later but for now there's not much to show. I spend most of my days trying to get Sonaj to study,  make some food for him and play The Sims.


Sunday 4 August 2013

New pictures!

Yay for very original title. I'll be leaving to Texas soon so you'll see more interesting pictures again. When I'm there I'll have time enough to update my blog regularly, so look forward to it!






Two weeks ago our king gave the crown to his son. We now have a new king! I was at work that day so Smoer updated me with pictures from the TV all day.

Our new king is the guy on this picture that has this "I'm going to kill you all, you'll see!" look on his face. The woman is our new queen and then the little princes and princesses. They're pretty cute. The oldest girl will probably be our first real queen! Up till our last king the crown would always go to the oldest son but now it goes to the oldest child.

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Gabriella is in Australia right now and I keep asking her for pictures. This is what I got so far.

Ice tea bicycles.

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Pizza...

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And a scenery! Haha. Most of the time she sends me pictures of her brushing her teeth and from food. I really hope to see more pictures of her trip when she gets back.

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Skyrim. Skyrim! I started playing on my Kajiit (which is like a cat on two legs). He's pretty fun.

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Some views.

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I'm surprised but we actually had more warm days. Suddenly this garden sprayer became a portal to heaven.

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For Smoer's birthday we went out for dinner to this all you can eat restaurant. There are a lot of various Asian dishes, including sushi. Awesome place.

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Yesterday evening me and Smoer cooked for my grandmother and after that we went to the channel to watch the sunset. It was really nice.

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We bought this 'speculaas chocolate balls'. I don't think many of you know what speculaas is but this stuff is SO GOOD.

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Chickens.

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