Ieper and Banana Bread

I finally had a day that felt somewhat normal and jet lag free. This was the first night in months that I slept for over nine hours without waking up. I have forgotten how awesome it is to sleep that long. Anyways, after making one of the most beautiful omelets which was definitely Testy Sheff worthy (if you don't know what the Testy Sheff is I advise you make a trip to Maple Valley for breakfast) Eamon Lucas, Tanner Putt and I went for a ride. We had planned on riding to the town of Ieper that would give us a total ride time of two hours, but as usual we got a little lost.

Ieper really is an awesome city that is full of history. Yesterday after our ride I did some reading about it and learned that it is ancient. No joke, ancient. The town itself dates back to the first century B.C. and was constantly involved in war. During WWI it was completely leveled. Check it out.


Now it looks a bit different.

The rest of the day I laid low at the house. For the most part I put my legs up and watched the Giro. Unfortunately it is covered in Flemish or Dutch, so we usually just turn off the sound. Flemish is like nothing I have heard before. I try to listen to it and pick up words that may be similar to English or Spanish, but it really isn't worth it. For right now I am limited to ja, dank u, lynx, and rex (yes, thank you, left, and right).

At the end of the day I decided to make an American snack. There were some old bananas so I rode a town bike to the local grocery store and picked up some baking essentials for a loaf of good old fashion banana bread. Ryan Eastman and some of the other guys helped make it, and it came out tasting awesome! However, it was nothing compared to my mom's. I guess I still have some stuff to learn.

-B