Back online

The last couple of weeks have been crazy and the fact that we have been doing a lot of stuff combined with the lack of internet the last weekend has made that we could not update the blog as often as we would have liked to. There have been many different situations where I was think: "Ey! I gotta post this on the blog!", so let's see what we can remember (and hopefully, not much will be left behind).

One of the biggest news was the purchase of my car. This was some time ago, but I never posted anything about it so at least I am going to put a picture. What car is it? well, I could not resist getting the "car of my dreams". Many people ask me if this is really the car of my dreams and I just say, "this I can afford, of course I would rather drive a lamborghini aventador but I am still very happy with my pick" and then smile :)

 

Before getting to the States, we were told, that the US people are very active. This means, they need to be constantly doing something and if you say for example that you have no plans for the weekend, they feel sorry about you! (From time to time I want to have some good rest and even once or twice a year remember what the feeling "bored" meant. Well, we definitely wanted to fit in the culture, so we decided to try out this kind of lifestyle. Here in our area there is always something going on, the only thing you need to do is just to decide what you feel like doing the next couple of days, look it up on the web and pay the more than reasonable priced fees they request for the different events.

A couple of weeks ago we went with a German friend that has been here in the US for almost six months to a comedy club in Royal Oak. It is one of those experiences that I really recommend to everybody, because first of all when you get in you feel like you are in one of these movies where a stand up comedian is making fun of somebody sitting on the first row ( I would suggest that only people that are not shy to sit on the first row, you will be used in different ways to make other people laugh:) and second of all you have more than an hour of uninterrupted entertainment, where you cannot stop laughing so badly, that your abs are sore the next day!

We went to see the stand up comedian Keith Alberstadt. His name might sound German-ish but once he opens his mouth you clearly see he might be the 2nd or 3rd generation:) He is a quite famous comedian that has participated in many late shows like David Letterman. Here I found a video with one of his participations in this show

Another thing we could not avoid was attending to Maria's first sports event. One "annoying" thing that they have here is that the TV is always ON transmitting some kind of sport (footbal, american football of course:); basket, hockey or baseball).

You go to a bar: sports on the TV

You go to a restaurant: sports on the TV

You go to a disco club: and.......sports on the TV!!!

Being bombarded all time by some sports it is quite understandable, that it did not take too long until we went to watch the Detroit Pistons play (I like the name, as we are in the Motor City!). For this occasion we had two Spanish players playing against each other. On one side of the ring, Jose Calderon for the Detroit Pistons, and on the other side Marc Gasol for the Menphis Grizzlies.

Of course, the last couple of years, the Detroit Pistons have not been doing anything but loosing and for that reason we decided that the Piston's goal should be not to loose for more than 20, which the achieved:) Nevertheless, we will keep on supporting them and watching them play life from time to time.

Another interesting experience we had, was to drive to downtown Detroit at night. The ocassion was a Muse concert that took place in the Joe Louis Hockey Arena. We went with our Italian friends and enjoyed really much the concert. We did a couple of videos of it, but knowing how the SGAE and GEMA work, you most likely won't be able to see them... so for that reason I will just post, for those who like their music, a concert they did in 2012 that was very similar to the one we went to:)

After the nice concert, we are were on a good mood, so we decided to go to a brewery in downtown. It is impressive to see such extremes, some part of the city with almost no lights, homeless people walking around and 100 meters away some other people going from bar to bar enjoying the cold weather and nice places to eat and drink in downtown with the option to see some important buildings iluminated.

The last thing that we wanted to include in this post was us moving to our new home. It is a nice ranch (meaning it is only one floor), with a garden (imagine that in Germany or Spain :)), and a lot of space, so much that it almost doubles what we had in Germany. It is also near to work, which makes it pleasant, thinking that sometimes, with bad weather or so, there can be a lot of traffic jam. It takes us like 10-15 min, it's luxury!!

However, the move has made us work like crazy, well, the normal things that happen at every move, only with a couple extras. Like for example, we took our lamps from Europe, and didn't really thing it through. Then we came here, and realized that our light bulbs don't work in US. We thought that a resistor is only a resistor, but didn't understand that the energy-efficient light bulbs are more than that. Well, now we have already a couple of things to bring when we move back to Europe, in three years or so... The same thing happens with the TV, although we did realised it wouldn't work here before coming, our idea was to buy a transformer to be able to use it here. The problem is that we've heard that even then the quality is very poor, and the tranformer is really expensive. So now we have a nice TV in its box, waiting for 2016 to be used...

Here is a couple of pics of the moving day. One funny detail, the hadrware for the bed didn't travel with it, so the moving guys left us here with a bed in pieces... After a couple of days, they came again with screws and so on from IKEA, and could finally build the bed.

But other than that, there's a lot that got done in the past days, we bought appliances, got internet, got our own things that stayed in the container until we could move (after two months without living in your place, you miss some things so much so wouldn't believe it), and somehow at the end of this week we can say we can live already how it is. Of course it is not finished, but it is ready to be shown to you, we hope you like it, at least we do, especially days like today where  we could enjoy the garden a little bit, spring is coming!!! By the way, the video is in spanish, but I think it is not difficult to understand every part of the house... That way you also learn :)

 

We are glad that we now have a couple of years without moving, because since November last year, we haven't been able to feel like we are starting to do now, and it is a good feeling! I don't want to discourage anybody that has to move in the next weeks, but my personal advice would be to pay somebody to do it and dissapear until everything is done :)

With that in mind, we say goodbye, we have no excuse to write the next weeks, so beware of the next entries :)

Lots of love