Happy Birthday to Me!
Friday, April 10, 2009 at 9:23AM 
Kaldi's Coffee in our French PressWhat a great way to start my birthday! I wake up and my wonderful wife sings me happy birthday first thing. For breakfast we're trying to make bacon (we found something labeled "English Bacon" in a butcher shop that looks close), eggs over hard (I love them over-easy but it's probably not too wise to do that here - and we DID splurge to get eggs with yellow yolks), pancakes (made from scratch, of course - no pancake mix available here), and grated hash browns like you get in some restaurants (those are an experiment - straight from potatoes to hashbrowns - for some reason I haven't found packages of grated hash browns in the supermarket here). AND the present I got to open first thing this morning... Kaldi's coffee!
Kaldi's is a coffee shop that is right across the street from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. They've got a whole slew of coffee shops all over the greater St. Louis area but their very first shop is that one right by the Seminary. They roast their beans and distribute them to other coffee shops in the area. The coffee shop where Krista and I met serves Kaldi's coffee. The coffee is so good that my parents in Washington State buy it online and have it shipped all the way across the country to them. It's so good and meaningful to us that Krista and I served Kaldi's coffee at our wedding reception. For my birthday my dad somehow managed to get about a pound of Kaldi's coffee here (presumably from St. Louis to Washington State to Kampala, Uganda) - and I somehow didn't smell it as it sat waiting for me to open it on my birthday!
It's even raining today - which comforts this boy from Seattle and means we may just have a cooler day. My birthday is off to a great start! -Shauen
Shauen & Krista
Hmmm. Well our bacon still had a bit of skin on it, complete with hair follicles. Not the prettiest thing to see on your food. But, just pull off that strip with the hair and you have bacon! Well, almost. -Krista