Dancing and Pirates…

Hey guys, sorry I haven’t written some new stuff this weekend, but we’ve been having some trouble with headaches and dizziness and stuff like that… Probably the late jet lag kicking in… So please pray for us that we will be ‘jetlag-free’ soon and will be able to work to our full potential! Thanks!

 

So it’s Monday again! Normally it would be like : aaaaaah Monday again??!! But here’s the days are all a little blurred into one an other anyway so it doesn’t have that much of an effect… And having no cell phones probably has something to do with it too… 😉 I even forget what day or date it is here… But this weekend was a good one, we did some nice things! 🙂 

 

On Saturday we started our day driving through Atlanta. Through HOT Atlanta, may I add… oh and I should mention that were in a truck, 3 people sitting in the front seat where there are basically just 2 seats and we were all dressed up…  Too bad we don’t have a picture of that, cause that was a petty funny sight…

We arrived in downtown Atlanta to see Stacy’s brother Cliff at his apartment. We were there to pick up a piano we needed for the tour and also just to see Cliff again. He has visited us several times in Romania and it was really special seeing him again! His apartment is simply gorgeous! I was about ready to move there! 🙂 Cliff is a very talented DJ (he’s got his own DJ business called C-TRAM) and entertainer. We had some coffee and tea together and it was nice just catching up and remembering the ‘good old times’… 🙂

And Cliff’s puppy Missy also wanted to come with the piano! “I wanna be a roadie!!! ;)”

 

After visiting Cliff, we went to the award’s ball of Edgar’s dance students. Edgar is a dance teacher at Ballroom Dance Clubs in Atlanta and on Saturday all the students of the studio got their certificates of completing their level of dancing for the year. They each did a dance with their dance teacher after which they got the certificates. Edgar’s students did very nicely! 🙂 In between the awards for each level everybody would dance with everybody and so at one point, one of the teachers came to ask me for a dance. Yay! I love dancing! 🙂

Defenitely happy to be there 🙂 :

At the end of the award show they put all the names of the teachers in a hat and then the students could pick out 2 names: first was one was the leader and second the follower and then those 2 would have to dance together to a dance that was also picked out of a hat. There was some funny dancing going on that way! 🙂

Here’s a picture of us with the owner of the dance studio: Kristine. She’s also donated a bunch of materials of the studio for Talmid Ministries, our ministry in Romania. So thank you for that, Kristine! 🙂 

 

After all that excitement we went home and just relaxed a little. Then Cornel and Stacy started practising the songs (cause of course, there should also be some work done!;)), fitting all the parts together for the acoustic performances they will be playing on the tour. It all has to be changed a bit, since on the cd, there are parts with lots of instruments and on the tour, there will be only guitar and piano, except for on the cd release concert (there we’ll have a whole band yay!). So they now have to find the balance in it all, bringing it just to the right intensity. But I’m sure it will sound amazing!!! 🙂 They work so well together, are both very talented and the Lord is graceful to give lots of inspiration! 🙂

 

On Sunday Cornel and Stacy went to Guitar Center (again! ;)), to tweak his electric guitar this time. Yes, the better we can get those guitars to sound, the better! Cornel likes his guitars to be at their best and here they provide a good service for that so… Of course, during the tweaking, he has lots of things to look at and test while he’s waiting… 😉 This is to him what malls would be for me I guess… 😉

While they were at Guitar center, I stayed home to rest a little (cause of the dizziness grrrrrr), but I also made myself useful by organizing our stuff in the closet in our room. Isn’t it beautiful? 😉

 

After that Stacy and me went to Plato’s closet, it’s a real nice second hand store closeby, they have a bunch of really nice stuff! Finally some girltime! 😉 I got a tshirt for like 3 dollars and 2 books: one for 2 dollars and the other one for 50 cents! 🙂 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the evening it was double date time!!! 🙂 Dinner and a movie yay! Edgar & Stacy and Cornel & me went to eat at Parma, they had real nice pasta and pizza! Yum yum!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then: the new Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides! 🙂 We went to see it in 3D at the IMAX Cinema in the Mall, the best 3D cinema I’ve ever seen!!! The movie was good, maybe not as good or funny as the other 3, but nevertheless entertaining! 🙂 And let’s be honest: Who doesn’t like Captain Jack Sparrow?! 😉

 

 

Ok last but not least: the funny things that I’ve seen in America this weekend! 🙂

1. Yoghurt pots open upside down  
2. On the highway there’s a special lane called HOV for vehicles with 2 people or more to encourage carpooling, so if there’s a lot of traffic, but you have 2 or more people in the car, you can just drive on that one
3. They have an ATM machine where you can drive your car next to, just like a drive through at McDonalds or something, just for serious business like depositing and stuff… 😉
4. People still pay with cheques here and like I said, they can deposit them at the drive through ATM machine… 🙂
5. Nobody walks anywhere so there are no crossovers or sidewalks anywhere, everybody drives

 

 

 

Thanks for reading and for praying for us! We appreciate it so much!!!