Hey people. I'm messing around with everything here, so be patient.

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Molyneaux

I thought you did. First let me say that I am sorry for the "Tauzin" sized post. I will try to keep them smaller. Ok now to the non-important things. I am done with classes at YTI and am now working at Advance Business Systems, which is simply the best company I could work for right now. That's pretty much what's going on.

Now to the important stuff. This past weekend Catie and I drove down to Holly Spring, NC to see my sister Kelly and her husband Jimmy. They have lived down there for about 3 or 4 years I think and this is the second time I have ever been down to see them. I'm such a good brother.

We left about 7am on Friday and drove to Natural Bridge, VA as a side trip. We found a road side attraction there that made us drive an extra two and a half hours out of our way. Now what would make me do that. I spend enough time in my car every week that when the weekend rools around I want nothing to do with it. So once again what could this road side attraction be? DINOSAURS in the CIVIL WAR! Yes you read that correct. It WOULD have been awesome, but we couldn't really find any info for it, so we took our chance and it was closed. Most of the attractions were closed, but we still got a couple pictures.

This was outside the main building.

And he was just inside the main building.

This was the sign that lead you up the hill to where the monster museum and Dino kingdom were.

This is the enterance to the monster museum. Funny story. The fence to the right didn't wrap around. So we decided to walk in and see what we could see. So we park the car in a place hidden from the road and go in and start walking up the hill. Right about the time we get to the top we hear sierens start to wail. Needless to say we both bolted to the car and drove away.

I want to go back. There is a lot to do. They have things like Foamhenge. You know you want to go also.

Now onto North Carolina. No more then 10 minuets down the road we see this.
Just in the middle of a town, still ready for the holidays. I pulled over to take a picture and people gave ME a look for taking a picture of the dinosaur in the middle of the town.

Ok so NOW onto North Carolina. The rest of the drive was alright. Hit a bit of traffic, but not bad. We get there, sit down for about an hour or so and then out to the city. Kelly and Jimmy took us to a museum to see the history of Raleigh NC in pictues. It was nice, but the place was packed full of people and a lot of hipsters. We walked around saw everything, and left. Then we went next door to a resturant named the "Big Easy". One guess want type of food they served. We all got a drink, and ordered some of the best food I had had in awhile. We got crab poppers, which were like little spicy, cheesey crab cakes, alligator bites, crab pretzel & lobster raviolli. It was delicious. We were going to go from there to a bar, but that didn't work otu to well and we ended up just going home and crashing.

The next day we woke up to find out that my sister has some of the most uncomfortable pillows known to man. My neck was trashed. A hand full of Advil helped out thouth and we headed out toa HUGE flea market. It reminded me of the world's largest yard sale. We all walked out with something. I was able to find a new camera for my collection. I got a Kodak instmatic from 1973 with flash cube. We left there to go into Apex I think for some pizza and beer and then back to the house for some rest before we went and saw Watchman. I have my veiws and opinions for the movie, but haven't been able to get them organized enough to write about it. Short answer, I really enjoyed the movie, I love the grpahic novel.

Sunday we woke up to a pancake breakfast which may seem nice, but it was in preperation to the 5 mile hike awaiting us. We took a 5 mile hike around a beautiful lake.


One of the first things I saw when we got onto the trail was this.....

It was a very nice hike. Cool wind coming in from the water almost the whole time. We did the whole thing in about 2 hours. Then it was time to get some food and get on the road. We made it back to Catie's in about six and a half hours. I dropped her off and made my way home. It was a long weekend and a lot of driving, but it was all worth it. Thanks to Kelly and Jimmy for housing us for the weekend and primarily feeding us. Looking forward to doing it again.

Here are some more pictures of the lake......

There is a nuclear power plant on the lake.

Marsh-like areas

These are some amusing places that Catie and I thought you may like

And FINALLY this is what Catie does to me in Little Big Planet

P.S. The Mid-Atlantic garden show this year handed out little bottles of wine to everyone at the party, and one of MY pictures from last year was on evey bottle. WOO!

OK here is how this will work. Sometimes I feel like posting here, but don't because I feel that no one reads it. So if you do read this and would like to read more, please leave a comment and I may start back up spelling errors and all.

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Moly_No