Spent about a week in the greater Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area. We had originally planned on staying just the weekend (visiting Bob and Steph), but ultimately stayed a week to resupply and book lodging for our upcoming stops. We hit all the big sights: Target, DSW, Barnes & Nobles, WalMart ;) …rolling into WalMart in particular is always an otherworldly experience. Everything is so cheap there. I think I spent 10 bucks for some dry-fit golf shirts, which is crazy. I don’t know how anyone can compete with these guys. Someday the Chinese will stop buying T-bills from the US Government and Armageddon will hit as no one can afford clothing. Until then, WalMart’s a great option for travel gear. By the way, I highly recommend golf gear for dress casual travel clothing: Washes easily, dries quickly, and wrinkle free.
Bob and I go back about 10 years to the time when we were house mates living in Santa Clara. It had been a while since we saw him and Steph, so we were long overdue for a visit. Steph is currently about 9 months pregnant so it was really great seeing the whole family before life got too crazy with the new baby. This was the first time that Ana has met little Cate, and I hadn’t seen her since she was a few months old. Cate is super adorable: she smiles alot and asks lots of questions. Bob has already started indoctrinating her in the ways of engineering… which is pretty funny for Q and A sessions.
Steph: “ How many sides in a triangle?”
Cate: “Three!”
Steph: “and what are the pointy parts called?”
Cate: “Vertices!!!”
I do have to give a shout out to Bob for a temporary revival of the tradition: “Sunday we eat like kings”. Pork spare ribs… barbeque chicken… fresh okra, corn, and green beans… Man, what a spread! Also another shout out to Patrick Shultz for hanging out with us all weekend and keeping me from falling too far over the edge Saturday night. Patrick, Sunday morning was a slow start but it could have been much worse!
Here are some pictures of our stay in North Carolina: http://picasaweb.google.com/richmosko/ChapelHill
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