After a pretty good rain storm last night, we woke up to blue skies and a crisp cool morning. We headed off towards Raleigh and just for the heck of it decided to see Duke University. On a whim we decided to call Ned’s high school friend, Jed, who is the Director of Duke’s Center for Nicotine & Smoking Cessation Research, a message, went to lunch and heard from him while eating. Turned out he only worked 2 blocks from where we had arbitrarily decided to dine. While walking the 2 blocks to his research office, my phone rang and it was Megan saying, “Hey, mom are you walking down the street in North Carolina now?” Quite surprised, I answered yes. Megan then said her friend Becca just called her and said, “Hey Megan, I think I just saw your mom walking down the street.” (Becca is a nursing student at Duke and a former roommate of Megan’s). How coincidental was that?! We had a great time chatting it up with Jed, meeting his wife and getting a tour of the facilities. A short drive later we arrived at my niece Cassie’s house. She and her husband, JB, have the two most adorable boys! We brought them some cowboy hats and bandanas from Bryce Canyon, and they wore them the rest of the day. The cutest thing was when we all went out for ice cream tonight, two little girls about the same age spotted them and said, “Look daddy – cowboys!” Some things never change – what girl doesn’t like a guy in a cowboy hat? (See today’s pic.) Ned and I are plum tuckered out from riding bikes, wrestling, playing at the park and being horses for the cowboys. This ol’ gray mare ain’t what she used to be. We promised the boys they could sleep in the camper’s upper bunk with us when we all meet up in Wisconsin in a couple of weeks. I’ll let you know how that works out...
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