Trip to North Carolina

Jamey and I just got back from North Carolina.  Other than driving the car back from NY, this was our first trip in our neeeeeeew car!  Well, kind of. We borrowed it to drive to MI and back in May, but now it's ours!

 There was a Syriac conference at Duke, which I did not attend, but Jamey did! Here is the picture we took of Duke Chapel, from our private jet.  Just kidding.  My iPhone couldn't handle the awesomeness and the picture turned out to be lame; this is from the internet. :(

I normally do conferences too, but Syriac is just a little too narrow for me to be able to fake competence in it.  He spent Monday and Tuesday conferencing; I spent them reading The Hunger Games trilogy.  Here we are reading together (thanks, Emily, for capturing this none-to-rare moment):

Durham was very cool.  It was everything I wanted Princeton to be, with cute (and affordable) downtown shopping and eating.  We ate dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Brightleaf Square, which is made from two buildings that used to be tobacco factories.

We stayed with our friends (Emily and Vadim) from ACU, with whom we took the world's longest road trip when we moved from TX to NJ (we dropped them off in NC, on the way).

A great use of a few vacation days!