Saturday, July 28, 2007

Breakfast at Big Eds in Raleigh...




This is it, the beginning of our blog, the very first, the very shortest probably.

We are counting four weeks now since we moved to the United States. We have settled in into our quaint furnished apartment in Chapel Hill, and Sabine has already made a few friends in the neighborhood.

This morning we met up with Johnny and Killer in Raleigh, to have breakfast together at the infamous Big Eds...where you can eat brains and red eye gravy... When I had parked the truck I made a quick 4$ Dollar donation to the city (unfortunately I didn't get a receipt), and then we met up with Johnny and Killer in front of Big Eds, where a Jazz band consumed Lya and Luc's attention. The very friendly trumpet man of the band put pink beeds around Lya's neck, and green ones around Luc's - we were ready for breakfast.

After breakfast we short cut through what must be the biggest construction site in Raleigh right now (the new convention center) to get to some sort of Health awareness event where they had those big jumping things for kids and were giving away free stuff like tissues, rubber spiders, sparkling sodas and so on. The best thing of it all were the friendly Raleigh firemen who let Luc sit in the fire truck and peek into a real ambulance.

A quick stop at Killer's new office to moderate the deposition of the mulch (je je) / that was it for the kids and we drove back to Chapel Hill with both kids passed out in the back.