Holiday Update, part 2

The trip to NC started off with a little excitement, as we were on the plane with two suspiciously tall, athletic, and UNC-affiliated guys that, upon later investigation turned out to be basketball players Alex Stepheson and Deon Thompson. I can report that Thompson has some massive diamond stud earings, and Stepheson wears a kids-style plasticy power-rangers or similar backpack during transcontinental voyages. Also, Thompson takes approximately 3 minutes longer in the men's bathroom after a 2.5 hour flight than do I.

This event was pretty exciting because later on Kate and I (and Jon and Wendy) got to go to the UNC-Rutgers game! The Tarheels destroyed them, but it was still a fun event. I obliged Roy Williams by wearing my only Carolina blue shirt I travelled with, and Kate was subtly defiant by showing a crimson collar. Thanks, Kimballs! Here's a few pictures from the game.

L: The house that Dean built, R: Brandan Wright throws down a monster jam

In addition to the UNC game, while in NC (at Wendy's new house in Durham, which is a pretty awesome house) we:

• Caught up with youth group friends! It was great to see everyone at Charity and Jeff's new house, which they also have looking really nice. Will have to come back some summer for a pool party. In attendance were T+K, Charity, Jeff, Julia, Mei-Yen, Emily, PeterG, Will, Nora.
• Took Lucky for lots of walks. What a perfect little feist!
• Played some good games of VisualEyes and Pictionary with the family - so fun that Auntie was able to come up too.
• Went for lots of walks in the Duke Forest.
• Attended John Edwards' '08 candidacy announcement rally at Southern Village. Interesting to be there- mostly just a stump speech, but we also got to see the Del McCoury band, and I bumped into a couple high school friends, too.

Below are a few pictures from our visit, click for a larger version.