Duke Gardens

In between all our moves we went to Duke Gardens with our cousins Travis & Jessica. They told us that Cameron Indoor Stadium (where Duke basketball plays) is always open to walk around. When we walked in we heard people on the court. We walked into the court and saw a bunch of old guys playing basketball. Then Jessica noticed Coach K sitting on the first row. We were in shock!! Turns out it was the K-Academy. It is a fantasy basketball camp that people pay $10,000 to go to. We only learned this when a lady, who we think is Coach K's daughter, came up to us and asked us to leave. After that exciting experience we headed to Duke Gardens to have a picnic lunch. It was a beautiful day and we're glad we could take a break from moving.

 Andrew started to have fun with Jessica's camera! 

 This is the back of Coach K's head. He is in the white polo. 

"In my mind I'm going to Carolina"

We finally made it to North Carolina. We pulled into our new place and we were excited to start our life here. When we walked into our apartment it kind of had a weird smell to it. We just thought it was from all the humidity and no one living in the apartment for awhile. As we spent a few nights there the smell would just not go away. We spent about 100 dollars getting cleaning supplies and air fresheners to see if that would help. After that didn't work we still just felt like we should stay at the apartment and that it would get better. So with the help of our cousins we moved all of our stuff in. Even after we had all of our things moved in we didn't really start to unpack. We just kept thinking maybe we should move but not telling the other person. We also had a few interesting experiences with some neighbors throughout our time there that finally pushed us over the edge. We discovered that the smell in our apartment was a mix of the humidity, cigarette smoke, pets, and cigar smoke. So when Andrew got home from school one day and the cops were outside the apartment of our neighbors he told me he had seen an apartment complex on campus that we should go look at.  We headed over and were told that we didn't qualify to live there because Andrew was a grad student. We left feeling discouraged but decided to look at an apartment complex that we passed quite a bit by our old place. When we walked into the apartment we knew we needed to move there. The whole environment was a different feel and the apartment was really nice. So we called up our awesome cousins again to help move us from our old place to our new place. They were troopers and we moved all the stuff in one afternoon.

Even though our first few days in North Carolina were a little rocky we found where we needed to live and have LOVED it. Feel free to come visit us anytime! :)

The pictures from our first move. 

Returning the U-Haul after our second move.