Well, it's sad to say, but our week hanging out with Matt Seashore had to come to an end. It was definitely sad to see him go, but everybody really had a great time. Rachel and I were really thankful to get some semblance of a break, even if we still had class interspersed the week. We picked Matt up at the airport on Sunday night and then had burgers with our neighbors, Tyler and Joy. Here are some of the brief highlights of the rest of the week.Monday: I had to work, and Rachel had class, so Monday was kind of a shorter day in terms of fun. Matt went around the corner to visit the Motricity East team. For those of you who don't know, Matt is doing consulting work for Motricity, but at their Bellevue, Washington branch on the other end of the country. It was kind of a weird coincidence that we ended up living right next door to the company that our friend works for. He hung out with his new friends for a couple hours. The Motricity company is in the midst of laying off pretty much their whole Durham office, and will only work out of the Seattle office that Matt is at during the week.
Tuesday: Duke stuff. We showed Matt around campus and went to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, or the Sarah Palin Gardens as Matt nicknamed them. We also went to the Nasher Art Gallery. We're real cultured.
Wednesday: If you can believe it, this was the first time we got to go to Raleigh since we moved here. We figured having Matt here was a good excuse, and there was also the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Science Museum which was pretty sweet. I think we also ended up sending crazy pictures to Michael from Red Robin at dinner. Afterwards we all got to talk with Michael, Ashley, Isaiah and Melora (Mewowa as Isaiah used to say) on the webcame.Thursday: I think we went to Chapel Hill that night. We didn't do much else. I had class. Lame?
Friday:Matt and I went to Bennett Place, which was the site of the largest surrender of troops in the Civil War. It was free, and kinda cool. Then we went to Cracker Barrell (White People Barrell, remember?) for some fine cheap southern food. Mom, they have that crazy-good kettle corn for sale there!
Saturday: We snuck Matt into the Duke Basketball Blue-White scrimmage, which is basically when Duke plays itself. Coach K splits the team up into two squads and they scrimmage each other. Wow, that sounds kind of dirty. It was fun, and free, and we each got a cool t-shirt for free. After that, Matt had to go :(All-in-all, it was a really great week. We spent way more money than we should have on food, but Matt generously paid for way more meals than he should have. It is kind of sad around here having to get back to normal, but my parents and grandparents are coming in a little more than a month for Thanksgiving, so that will be really good to look forward to.
P.S., I really hope Matt has some better pictures I can use. These are all I have from my phone.
