Saturday 13th October and Sunday 14th, 2018
This morning we got up when our alarm went off to 7 a.m. and that’s when I jumped into the shower as today was another travelling day – this time we were heading Raleigh, North Carolina but we were taking a flight up there leaving our rental car at Carolyn’s and Aad’s house.
By the time we were downstairs, Carolyn was preparing us a cooked breakfast – omelette filled with onions and home grown paprika’s on toast together with some strong freshly brewed coffee. By 8.30 am we were ready to drive to the airport – we left our rental car at Carolyn and Aad’s place and Aad drove us to the airport.
However passing through security was no easy job – Gerry hadn’t packed his hand luggage properly and he was stopped for inspection…… he still had his corkscrewdriver and a knife which we used for our fruit and wine when we were in the hotels; so they got confiscated……
Our one and a half flight to Raleigh went smoothly – well I slept most of the the way…… at Raleigh airport we were met by my dear friend Ruth and her husband Jay and in a while we were sitting at their lunch table at their home. It was so good to meet up even though we had seen each other last year in Croatia.
We spent quite some time catching up and the I nthe evening we went out for dinner which was exquisite.
By the time we reached home, we were quite tired and whilst the men went off to bed, Ruth and I remained up just chatting. Our friendship goes such a long way starting off with being pen pals at the age of 10 when I was at school at the Sacred Heart in Malta and Ruth at school at the Convent of Jesus and Mary in New Delhi.
By 1.30 made it to bed and the following morning – Sunday – I only got up at 9am while Gerry was still asleep. Of course Ruth and Jay were already up and getting breakfast read – today we were going o the North Carolina State Fair. This is a fair exhibiting rural and agricultural products as well as masses of food stalls and fun fair activities. It was so very typical and of course loads of people as this event attracts the country folk for miles around and they all stream into the fair grounds.
Well by the time we had seen quite a bit of the grounds and watched people stuffing themselves in huge turkey legs, corn on the cob and loads of burgers, we made our way to the car which was parked a few miles down the road and were ready to go back home. We had some lunch at home and then some time out till Ben, Ruth and Jay’s oldest son came to visit. it was so good to see home as it’s been some 9 years since I last him. Same sweet young man Ive always known since I first met him back in 1984 when he was a toddler.
Tonight it was dinner at home and we picked up some salad and desert at the local supermarket and while Ruth prepared the lasagna, I made the salad with a mustard honey dressing. A lovely evening at home and enjoying each other’s company till it was time to go to bed.
Tomorrow we will spend some in down time Raleigh and the in the evening we will be flying back to Nashville to pick up our road trip again and driving to Gatlinburg.
