Our Very First Visitors!!!

Clay and Jen win the prize.

Ever since moving to North Carolina, we've offered the world an open invitation to come and stay in our roomy and luxurious 2-bedroom apartment and to taste a slice of the South with us. Well, this weekend, someone finally answered the call.

It was great to have Clay and Jen in our home and to show them a new portion of our lives. See, much of our dealings with our family friends only offers us the opportunity to give them the "surface" story of what goes on in our lives. It's hard sometimes to explain or describe what our lives are like on a daily basis, but this weekend Clay and Jen got to see our classrooms, walk through our hallways, and even meet some of our students. And that was just the beginning.

In their short stay, we saw Chapel Hill and Durham in all their glory (they seemed to really like the Southern-style homes), visited the campuses of Duke and UNC, watched a Duke-UNC baseball game, played tennis, and ate at all of our favorite restaurants. You'd have to ask them what their favorite part was, but for us, it was just being in the company of family. We're quite isolated from family out here in North Carolina, and it was nice to laugh and talk and spend time with them...other than on Skype or on a phonecall.

Now, they may have won the gold, but there is still plenty of time for y'all (and by "y'all" I mean everybody), to take silver and bronze, and any honorable mentions that may come after that. Don't be shy now. Come on out and let us show y'all what Southern hospitality is all about.