Wednesday, July 4, 2007


Okay I'm gonna give this a go:

Here are the rules:Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their 8 things and post these rules.At the end of your blog, you need to choose four people to tag and list their names.

Random Facts/Habits About Me:
1. At one time I really wanted to be a NASCAR driver.
2. I don't like cheesecake
3. I just got called as Young Women's President (notice I didn't say anything about being released as Primary President)
4. I think we're closer than we all think (in America) to a 'Running Man' type of society than we'd like to admit.
5.I love to grow vegetables and fruits, flowers too. I think if there were one reason to not live in AZ, it would be because it's not in an ideal growing zone.
6. After having lived in a foreign country for over two years, I'm amazed at how much of the language I haven't picked up. If I could snap my fingers and have one thing, it would be to speak any language at any given time. That would be cool.
7. My Best Friend has and always will be my Husband, the perfect husband.
8. I'm old enough to remember when Transformers came out the first time, I also remember the TV show called "Barbara Mandrel and the Mandrel Sisters".
Okay...Tag you're it :)I'm not naming anyone because I don't know anyone else with a blog that hasn't been tagged already, oh, wait Charlotte's on the list, and Kristiana, but I won't hold my breath.

Fourth of July in Slovakia


Okay, well, so far we've spent 4th of July in Prague, England, this year we're here in Bratislava. On Saturday we took a bus down to the Castle grounds where the American Chamber of Commerce in SK hosted a Independence Day Party. It was a little odd. They had Slovak bands singing American music, an Elvis impersonator, a Beatles cover band (which I had to point out to someone, is a British band-the beatles that is), a mechanical bronco, face painting (see Bremen with 2 American Babes in Photo), a giant inflatable cactus that you could climb up and repel down, a parade, a petting zoo, free drinks and food. The lines for the food where horrendous, although not bad (I've had worse hamburgers and the hot dogs were quite good), we didn't even attempt the Taco line.

Bremen insisted on wearing his coonskin cap, which attracted alot of attention and fit in nicely with the theme-Old West. One of the highlights had to be during the parade, when Miss Slovakia pointed at Bremen and said "Oh, how cute!" really loud. Another highlight was atching the US Embassador riding the mechanical Bronco, unfortunately he didn't fall off-it was being filmed for TV. But I think the best was Kevin being interviewed by a Slovak TV reporter.

She asked (in English) where he was from and if he liked SK. She then asked if he thought it was ok to celebrate a country's independence in another country, whether he thought Slovaks have a good idea of American culture and if Americans have an idea of Slovak culture. His answers where PC enough that the messages reporting he'd been seen on TV (mostly people from work) he got that night contained no threats. He didn't have the heart to tell her that most Americans don't even know Slovakia exists, or if they have heard of it, say "That's in Europe, right?"