Playing Tourist

We spent Friday visiting plantations and going to Duke U. While we were at the Duke family homestead the sky opened up and it poured.

Slave Housing at the Duke Homestead The Duke home
The Chapel at Duke, It is gorgeous
The pipes for the organ. There was a wedding rehearsal going on and a guy told us that there were three weddings planned for Saturday in the Chapel.

The latest from N.J

Saturday: Susan and I were lazy most of the day. In the afternoon we went out to The Fire station where Bill works and watched them do practice extractions from a car. It was very neat.

Sunday: Susan and I went out to Bull Run and walked around and saw where the different battles took place.

Monday we went to the Marine Corps museum.


I arrived at the PHIL train station yesterday where Abby picked me up. We went to her in laws for brunch and then ran errands. I also took a great 2 hr nap!!! Today Philip and Abby are having all of the Sikoras over for supper. Scott and Lisa Rochon and their three kids are here from Florida. It should be fun! Tomorrow I leave for N.C. to meet up with Lori and then go up to the camp "near" Ashville.

Flickr

Here is a link to some of the pictures I have taken so far.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/10566346@N06/

The 4th of July

Bill and Susan are married!

One of the reasons I came to the D.C area was for my friend Susans wedding. The 4th was a busy, busy day. We all had a great time and ended the day with a minor league baseball game that tried to get rained out. It was just a little rain, but umbrellas went up very fast. Oh well we didn't melt.

My week so far

Ok so Monday started with me dropping by my Grandmas to say hi, and me taking her over to the hospital. She is ok, but there was some confusion about her meds and she had fainted a couple of times. It was decided that the fainting had to do with the heat. I had been in the high 90's and reached 102 on Sunday. Oh ya this was in WallaWalla.

Tuesday was uneventful, last minute prep for my trip.

Wednesday: I spent the day in either an airport or a plane. My flight out of PDX was delayed 45min. That was fine as I had a 3hr layover at LAX and a entire row to myself. When we landed in LAX we were told there had been some kind of security breach and the traffic coming in and out of the airport had been stopped. I still have no idea what happened. After going from the Alaska gates to American I was informed that I was not in the computer. Can you say slight freak out. They sent me to customer service and everything was straightened out. Again my flight was delayed and this time very full. Oh ya did you know that if you want food on American it costs $10 for a sandwich and chips, $3 for a cookie, or chips. OUTRAGEOUS

I am spoiled by Hawaiian Air and Southwest. Any way I arrived here at 12:20 am local time.

Thursday: I slept till 10 local and we have been puttering around doing wedding stuff.