More pancakes!

I tirsdags var det national pandekagedag - i hvert fald på IHOP (International House of Pancakes - ja, det eksiterer - ja, det er en kæderestaurant). 

På IHOP betyder national pandekagedag at alle (ja, ALLE!) får gratis (ja, GRATIS!) pandekager! 

Juhuuu! - dét skal fejres ;-)

Så vi mødte glade og sultne op tirsdag morgen kl. 9 til en omgang pandekager (og lidt rigtig morgenmad i form af spejlæg og hashbrowns/rösti). 

Rigtigt nok var pandekagerne gratis - 3 stks. pr. næse. 

Til gengæld opfordres man til at smide lidt håndører i deres indsamling på vejen ud. Der bliver samlet ind til Children's Miracle Network som sørger for at f.eks. kræftsyge børn eller børn med andre længerevarende sygdomme har adgang til ekstra ressourcer.

Pandekagerne var lækre - og vi efterlod alle en lille donation på vejen ud :-)

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Tuesday was national pancake day - at least according to IHOP.

At IHOP, national pancake day means free (yes, FREE!) pancakes for everybody (yes, EVERYBODY!).

Wohooo - worth a small celebration ;-)

So we went to IHOP at 9AM, happy and hungry, to get our pancakes (and some real breakfast like eggs and hashbrowns). 

Even though I was skeptical at first (really? Something for free in the US?), the pancakes were actually free! 3 per person.

However, you were encouraged (not forced) to donate a bit of money after your meal. The donation would go to the Children's Miracle Network, which as far as I understood, is a charity that provides some extra resources to children who have longterm illness or disease, or is hospitalized for other causes. 

The pancakes were delicious and we all left a small donation on the way out :-)

Stuck!

Sidste weekend var der ikke vildt mange planee på programmet, og jeg havde derfor invitere Flora og Nadine med ud i Jim og Theresas lille hytte, og bare se nogle film og slappe af. 

Og som det nu er når man får nye gæster på besøg, så skal man jo give en lille rundvisning, hvilket hos Jim og Theresa skal indebære en tur i "Kybota'en" rundt omkring den lille sø og ned og se lidt af skoven nede bagved huset. 

Det havde bare regnet rigtig meget de sidste par dage.. 

Så da vi på et tidspunkt kun med nød og næppe (og 4-hjulstræk) kunne komme videre, måtte vi hellere vende om - men det nåede vi heller ikke inden vi sad fuldstændig fast i mudderet!

Vi prøvede det meste: frem, tilbage, dreje, ikke dreje, højt gear, lavt gear, 4-hjulstræk, 2-hjulstræk - men intet virkede!

Til sidst måtte vi give op, og ringe efter hjælp.

Jim kom straks til undsætning med traktor, og kunne trække os op på mere tørt land, så vi selv kunne trille tilbage.

Til aften var vi forbi "Smokin' Pig" for at hente aftensmad med tilbage til hytten. Smokin' Pig eren lokal restaurent som serverer traditionel, sydstats barbeque - dvs. blandt andet pulled pork med coleslaw og mac 'n cheese - der var nok til dagen efter også ;-) 

- Og så havde vi naturligvis rigeligt med snacks og snoller til de mange film vi fik set i løbet af weekenden :-) Heldigvis væltede det ned med regn stort set hele weekenden, så der var heller ingen dårlig samvittighed over bare at være indenfor. 

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I didn't have that many plans last weekend, so I had asked Flora and Nadine to come out to Jim and Theresa's cabin to just relax and watch some movies. 

And as it always is when you have new guests coming over, you have to give them a tour, and at Jim and Theresa's the tour must include a ride in the Kybota around the pond and down to the woods behind the house.

But it had been raining a lot over the last couple of days. 

So at a time when we could just barely go on on the path (by using the 4wd), we thought it better to try to turn around - but unfortunately we never got that far because we got completely stuck in the mud!

We tried pretty much everything: back, forwards, turning, not turning, high gear, low gear, 4wd, 2wd, but nothing worked!

Eventually we gave up and had to call for help.

Jim came to our rescue right away with a tractor and managed to pull us out to more dry land, from where we could make our way back.

At night we went by "Smokin' Pig" for take-out. Smokin' Pig is a Valdosta local restaurant, which serves traditional, southern barbeque - among others, pulled pork with coleslaw and mac 'n cheese - there was plenty for the next day ;-)

- And we also had plenty of snacks and candy to go with the many movies we watched during the weekend :-) Luckily, it was pouring rain most of the weekend so we didn't have the slightest of a bad conscience about staying in.