We are now in North Carolina, a short four hour drive through torrential downpours. But I got to spend 36 hours in Charlottesville with my best friend/lifepartner Pam (whose own blog you can check out at spicykoury.blogspot.com). I met her bunny, Ranger, whose nickname is "Bunny." I petted him and he was the softest thing I'd ever touched, but he was not that friendly. He pretty much spent the whole time eating paper and looking scared, as is illustrated below.
I also helped Pam put together her new 6th grade History classroom. I helped her put together a bulletin board and hang her posters and I got a new appreciation for how much work even the seemingly easy aspects of teaching can be. We learned that we are not very good at cutting in straight lines.
Pam hosted a murder mystery party in the evening where we all tested out pretty horrible accents (British, Russian and Swedish, many of which started sounding Irish or Indian at one point or another). We mostly just drank mojitos and ate lots of snacks, including gourmet popcorn from Scotty's in flavors like "loaded potato" and "cornfetti," which might be better described as fruit loops. In the end it turns out I was the murderer.
Today we went to brunch at The Tavern and hit the road. The Tavern was fabulous and I'll be writing more about that later. On our ride to North Carolina we passed by a lot of farms and a lot of election lawn signs, the best of which is below.
I like the re-election sign. Haha. Please go back to kindergarten to learn to cut those lines.... :-) Wish I could visit, too!
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