Busy, busy with company
I arrived home Saturday morning from a long month of reserve (on-call at work) and hit the ground running. SpyC's ma and g-ma arrived the night before on Friday. I came home and showered and it was off to the mall. It's been a busy, but fun week with them. On Sunday, we visited the North Carolina Botanical Gardens on the campus of UNC at Chapel Hill. After we visited the garden, we drove through the campus and around the town, ate dinner and headed back to Fuquay-Varina.
On Monday, SpyC was back to work so the ladies and I hit up another mall. Came home, picked up Beth and it was off to Smithfield's (classic Carolina BBQ, so I'm told) and Michael's to get some Fall decorations. On Tuesday, the ladies and I headed up to the Mordecai Historic neighborhood. We toured the Mordecai House, the oldest house in Raleigh on its original foundation and birthplace of former President Andrew Johnson. The house is located on what was a five thousand acre cotton plantation, which was later coverted to corn. The history there was pretty interesting, and I enjoyed the tour.
On Wednesday, we headed to the coast to visit SofaKitty's parents, see their beautiful house and dip our toes into the Atlantic Ocean. As SpyC's mom said, it's beautiful there. She had only seen the Atlantic from New York and New Jersey and admitted it was entirely different here. The sand is amazing and the water warm. It's just amazing, and I'd love to live there someday. Today we headed to High Point, NC, the furniture capital of the country. We visited one furniture warehouse, spent an hour there, and saw maybe one fourth of the store. It was huge, and it seems all the furniture places there are at least that big. I am anxious to go back there with SpyC and check out more deals... we need end tables in the living room, patio furniture and rockers for our front porch.
On Monday night, on our way home to pick up Beth, we witnessed a pretty bad car accident. There was a car driving kind of irratically... enough that he was making nervous so I held back to keep my distance. He kept speeding up and slowing down and would not maintain his lane. At one point, he really hit the gas and took off. A little ways up the road, the car went of the road, over-corrected, got back on the road, fish-tailed and shot off into a ditch where it flipped. All right in front of us. It was very scary. We pulled over. Dale got out to help the victims and I called 911. The police/fire/ambulance arrived very quickly. Dale could smell alcohol on the driver's breath... I never got close to him or the passengers. I stayed back with Vivian, spoke with the police about what I witnessed and filled out a witness statement.
In the picutre, you can see the car was righted. Some passers-by who saw the accident righted the car so the female passenger in the back could get out. In the end, one passenger suffered a broken arm. What happened from there, we aren't sure. We're assuming the driver was arrested for DUI, but we left before that might have happened. The whole thing was pretty traumatic and we're thankful they were all ok. It was scary to witness, and I'd rather not ever see that again. The accident looked bad enough we were truly worried about what we'd find when we pulled over. Of course it was all very quick, but plays over and over in slow motion in my mind. I am just glad I was able to keep my distance from him and not be involved in the accident myself.
On Monday, SpyC was back to work so the ladies and I hit up another mall. Came home, picked up Beth and it was off to Smithfield's (classic Carolina BBQ, so I'm told) and Michael's to get some Fall decorations. On Tuesday, the ladies and I headed up to the Mordecai Historic neighborhood. We toured the Mordecai House, the oldest house in Raleigh on its original foundation and birthplace of former President Andrew Johnson. The house is located on what was a five thousand acre cotton plantation, which was later coverted to corn. The history there was pretty interesting, and I enjoyed the tour.
On Wednesday, we headed to the coast to visit SofaKitty's parents, see their beautiful house and dip our toes into the Atlantic Ocean. As SpyC's mom said, it's beautiful there. She had only seen the Atlantic from New York and New Jersey and admitted it was entirely different here. The sand is amazing and the water warm. It's just amazing, and I'd love to live there someday. Today we headed to High Point, NC, the furniture capital of the country. We visited one furniture warehouse, spent an hour there, and saw maybe one fourth of the store. It was huge, and it seems all the furniture places there are at least that big. I am anxious to go back there with SpyC and check out more deals... we need end tables in the living room, patio furniture and rockers for our front porch.
On Monday night, on our way home to pick up Beth, we witnessed a pretty bad car accident. There was a car driving kind of irratically... enough that he was making nervous so I held back to keep my distance. He kept speeding up and slowing down and would not maintain his lane. At one point, he really hit the gas and took off. A little ways up the road, the car went of the road, over-corrected, got back on the road, fish-tailed and shot off into a ditch where it flipped. All right in front of us. It was very scary. We pulled over. Dale got out to help the victims and I called 911. The police/fire/ambulance arrived very quickly. Dale could smell alcohol on the driver's breath... I never got close to him or the passengers. I stayed back with Vivian, spoke with the police about what I witnessed and filled out a witness statement.
In the picutre, you can see the car was righted. Some passers-by who saw the accident righted the car so the female passenger in the back could get out. In the end, one passenger suffered a broken arm. What happened from there, we aren't sure. We're assuming the driver was arrested for DUI, but we left before that might have happened. The whole thing was pretty traumatic and we're thankful they were all ok. It was scary to witness, and I'd rather not ever see that again. The accident looked bad enough we were truly worried about what we'd find when we pulled over. Of course it was all very quick, but plays over and over in slow motion in my mind. I am just glad I was able to keep my distance from him and not be involved in the accident myself.
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