I thought I'd tell you about my mom's visit to North Carolina a couple of weeks ago, and give you an update since its been a little while. Mom arrived on a Wednesday night. Allen and she and I went across the street to Cinelli's and were wined and dined. The next day she and I drove down to Cedar Island and rode the ferry to Ocracoke. We took in the last concert of the season from Molasses Creek, a famous local bluegrass band, and stayed in this great 1950's era cottage (we got an off-season rate!). Next day we toured around the village, hung around the beach, found some shells in the dredge pile at the north end of the island and took the ferry up to Hatteras to see the lighthouse. We ate at Howard's, of course, and introduced mom to blackened fish and hushpuppies. On Saturday, we met Allen's mom and went out to Chapel Hill to eat at Mama Dip's. MMMmmmMMM! We also toured the arboretum out there before coming back to town to check out the state farmer's market. At some point we toured around Historic Oakwood, too. The following day we saw the art museum, the arboretum at NC State, and the rose garden. We also irritated the internet into coughing up a cached page that contained a picture of my mother's birth parents on a Navy ship heading for Japan. Unfortunately, all that was cached was the caption, not the picture itself. But we ordered a copy from the National Archives. We also discovered that my mom's paternal grandfather was likely a three term congressman from Maine. He's got his own wiki page. Interesting stuff.
I'm leaving this afternoon for Houston, and I've got a to do list as long as my arm. I'll write more from there, later in the week!
