"You see, it’s the hottest fires that make the hardest steel."

When it comes to creating powerful and emotional video productions, no other country is even near giving USA a fight. Watch, and enjoy.

Goosebumps. Every time.

There's always time for pizza...

After soon two months in the states, I've almost become a professional fast food eater. Hamburgers, subs, pizzas - they're everywhere and they're amazing!

I was extraordinary happy last week when I found a pizza place so much more unique than Pizza Hut, Domino's or Papa Joe's etc. (with all respect). It's called "The Pizza Cart" and is run by a guy named Jason Murray. Jason has built his own pizza owen with help from a website, and thanks to the incomes from the pizza making, he's able to finance his total college tuition on Southern Utah University. He makes the pizzas by himself in this "different" looking pizza owen.

I think Jason and the Pizza Cart idea is great. And I think the pizzas are even greater.
If you haven't visit the Pizza Cart yet, I definitely recommend you to. Jason is on Main Street, Cedar City (near Steve's Shell) during mondays, wednesdays and fridays.

And my favorite one? The Italian Cowboy (the only one I've tried).

Let me hear what you think about his pizzas. And if you are one of The Pizza Cart's regular customers; which one is your favorite pizza?
I better have it.

The Pizza Cart on Main Street.

Some pizza making skills.

 

That's my Italian Cowboy in that box..

Delightful Days in Denver

It's always fun to explore new cities in USA, in my opinion the most versatile country on earth. This weekend me and Rebecka drove almost 1250 miles (about 2000 km) in our Mini-Van (!) From Cedar City, Utah to Denver, Colorado.

Mini-van for two? The american way!

Incredible nature on Interstate-70...

I've been to New York, Boston, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other big cities in the states, and I must say that Denver qualifies as one of my top three favorites (San Francisco and New York are the other two). 

Why? Well, Denver is a big city that offers shopping, nice restaurants, museums and a lot of good sporting events. At the same time, which makes Denver unique, is that you get to know the heart of the city in only one day. We visited Denver for only three days, and we're already familiar with the best clothing stores, the nicest baristas and the most delicious noodle place in town.

The view from our nice Ramada Hotel. 

Denver Art Museum.

DAM is big, seven floors of art in two buildings.

An other thing that makes Denver so fantastic is the nature. It's hard to imagine until you go there, but the surrounding mountains are incredible. To see the skyscrapers downtown go well with the huge white mountains makes you fall in love with the city:

Bad picture, but gets the point across.

We celebrated Valentine's Day with...

... out Pepsi clothes and...

..watched NHL! Flames @ Avalanche (9-1) without Forsberg :(

Driving through Colorado is beautiful, don't you think?

Thank You Colorado for a memorable weekend!

But hey, you can't leave without trying their burgers! Mmm..

Super Bowl commercial #1

Super Bowl 2011 was fun. I knew before that the advertising business during the Super Bowl is huge, but I could never understand that it was this big.

In my opinion, there was a lot of good commercials as well as bad ones.
This one right here, from CareerBuilder, is my favorite. Which one was yours?

I can't stop watching it.

Speaking of humor, check out this funny top 10 list by a class mate of mine, Ramell Taylor:
http://ramelltaylor.blogspot.com/2011/02/top-10-list-10-cars-that-you-cant-pick.html

USA - Sweden 1-0

Yesterday I was having a discussion about license plates with on of my class mates. He said he preferred the Swedish one, which is wider and less colorful than the american one.

I totally disagree.

You americans should be proud of your license plates. They are really good looking, and most important - they communicate from which state you're from, something that I really miss about the Swedish ones. Every state has it's own design. I'm actually really jealous. Why can't we come up with anything like that in Sweden?!

Anyway, which one do You prefer?

Swedish version

American version

Maybe it's just one of those "the grass is greener on the other side" cases ... The americans thinks that the european plates are more interesting than the american version and vice versa. 

But in this blog I decide.
The American license plate outscore the Swedish one.

USA 1. 

Sweden 0.

Thanks for the ride!

Coming to America from Sweden is a big difference in many ways. Today, I'll cover something quite unusual here in the states. It's called walking.

A warm and sunny day last week, me and Rebecka decided to go for a 30 minute walk to Walmart.

In Sweden we're used to walk instead of taking the car everywhere, so for us 30 minutes of walking is not a big deal. But here, people almost get offended hearing that we're going to walk "that far".

So for us, just start walking wasn't really an option. First after four or five discussions about why we actually wanted to walk, instead of getting a ride, we took our first steps towards Walmart.

The funny thing is that we after only 10 minutes was stopped by a car. The guy sitting in it was one of our class mates. And guess what he did?

Right, he offered us a ride. "Oh, you're not gonna WALK to Walmart! Can I give you a ride?".

We thought it was nice of him of course, but we tried to explain in a nice way that we just wanted to walk and breathe some fresh air. He was a little bit confused but still okay with it, so we continued our walk to Walmart.

When we finally reached our target, we got a strange feeling of guilt. We almost had bad conscience not getting there by car. Kinda funny, isn't it?

So when we were done shopping, the cashier asked us about the weather. When we told her it was chilly and windy outside, especially when walking, don't you think the guy in the line next to us heard - and of course offered us a drive home?

At that time, we did'nt have the power to say no.