After much debate I decided to pay for my dress and have M’s mom pick it up and bring it to Raleigh. I just couldn’t stand knowing it was sitting down there waiting for me. M and I talked it over and decided this would work. M’s mom will look over the dress and leave it at the house next weekend.  So when we get home from our road trip to MS my dress will be there! YAY!!!! I really am pretty excited.
Over the weekend M and I had a wedding to attend in New Bern. I’d never been to New Bern and it was a nice little break. We drove down Saturday around lunch and as luck would have it just about the time we couldn’t pick up the State game on the radio they were headed to halftime. When we got to our hotel room the second half had just started. State put the hurtin’ on BC so I made M walk around the marina with me so I could take some pics. We stayed in the Hilton which was right on the water. Saturday turned out to be a beautiful day. I got some good pics of the boats in the marina. Then we got ready and headed to the wedding.   It was at the country club on the back lawn over looking the water. It really was a pretty setting.
Sunday morning M and I finally got up and I called my great aunt who lives in New Bern. She is my grandmother’s sister. I only vaguely remember seeing her once when I was very young. We met her at a restaurant down the street from the hotel for brunch. After brunch she gave us a “walking” tour of downtown. She also showed us a house she previously lived in and then took us over to her current house. I had heard stories from my mom that my great aunt had been a model in New York at one point but I’d never seen any pictures. She had several on display including a national cigarette ad she was in as well as some modeling photos.  She was very pretty and had that pin-up girl look about her. It was pretty cool to get to talk to her for a bit.
M and I finally headed home after walking around downtown, since it was Mumfest. It was actually a pretty nice and casual weekend. But I am glad we will be home this weekend. Maybe I will actually get to watch an Auburn football game. I feel like we’ve had so much going on and I keep missing games. Although after seeing the score updates for this game I think I’m glad I didn’t watch.
Now I guess I will try to pass the time until it is time to go home.
~k