North Carolina.

Last week Dane and I moved to North Carolina. We are renting a great townhouse style/duplex that we love. Dane started Duke Divinity School today and life is just moving on.

The move was pretty intense. We literally packed up all of our belongings and drove them across 1/2 of the U.S. Both of our dads helped, Corey helped, and Beth helped with the first half of the journey. Callie helped at home the night before we left (basically all night).

We had to put the house we were staying in at Plumerville back together. We were renting a parsonage that belonged to the Baptist Church. It was a great house. However, it was fully furnished with towels, dishes, pictures, etc when we moved in. To live in the house we had moved everything to one room to store. So then when we moved out we had to put it all back. Callie was a huge help, because by the time we started reassembling the house we were exhausted.

We rented a Budget truck to carry our belongings (and tow my car) and we then drove Dane's truck and my Dad's truck. My Dad recently bought a truck with a very comfortable spacious interior so I managed to sleep in the passenger seat ~50% of the time. ;)

We stopped in Nashville to break up the trip. Dad and I stayed at Beth's apartment and the Womacks rented a hotel.

We left Nashville at 6am and we arrived in Durham around 3 or so. Unfortunately our electricity was not yet turned on and our house was a little warm during move in. However, the electric company came around 8:30pm and finally turned in on so we spent our first night at home with our dads and Corey.

They stayed another night to explore NC. We ate pizza at a fantastic restaurant Satisfaction. It was very very good pizza. They have a special sauce, yum. We were sad when our dads and Corey left and we are looking forward to their visits later this year. Saturday my sister is coming to visit!!! Awesome. She moved to Nashville this time last year. She got a round trip direct flight for $99. We are excited.

I know Dane is having a wonderful first day at Duke. I am currently sitting at Panera sipping a frozen strawberry lemonade in this wonderful 83 degree weather. We went to a Durham Bulls game last night and I got chilly outside. It has been a long hot summer and I am ready for some fall weather!!