on tarheel turf!

we made it to NC! we got in late monday night, and were greeted at the airport by mom (sporting her "abuelita t-shirt we made her) and dad, and marty, who came in for a surprise visit on saturday and showed up at Memaw's 90th birthday party, completely shocking mom and dad and everyone!! we had a fun day at the beach on tuesday with the fam, seeing the grandparents and celebrating with Memaw, and then had to take marty back to raleigh yesterday to go back to vancouver. we took advantage of the trip to raleigh to meet up with Kate for catfish quesadillas (yummmmm) which was fun as always!

today we went to the Wallace Stockyard, by far the most multi-cultural experience in eastern NC. its a huge field with rows and rows of yard sale stuff, antiques, ducks, pigs, fresh fruits and vegetables, funnel cakes, pirated CDs, some kind of fragrant oils from the Caribbean, etc etc etc from allll around the world. each booth owner is of a different ethnicity...who knew there was so much diversity here in wallace? anyways, we love going because you never know what youll find, plus elvis feels right at home, getting to barter in spanish and buy familiar fruits and veggies, even sugar cane!

now we are just taking it easy, trying to adjust to NC humidity and air conditioning. here are some pics:

arriving at the airport:

marty teaching elvis to boogie board for the first time:

happy 90th b-day Memaw!!