Durham, NC

We spent the weekend in Durham, which definitely had some cute areas. The theatre was brand new (just opened in November), and it was close to a few food options, which is a bonus when you are stuck there for the whole weekend, doing five shows.

There were a few things I wanted to see while we were there. One of them being Duke University. I guess that they have a beautiful chapel, gardens and art museum, and we were only a few miles away. This was my plan for Saturday morning.

Well, that didn't exactly happen. Five of us went to an area of town on Friday night to have a few drinks at George's Garage. There was a group of three women there that recognized our friend from the show, and they were already a few martinis deep. Lets just say these women were not hurting in the financial department, based on their clothing and wedding rings. One of them was a daughter of a major college coach as well. Well they just LOVED our friend and Darrel. They starting buying them beers and shots, as us ladies sat at the other end of the bar. The bartender felt bad for us, so HE bought us a drink! (I told Darrel to just go with it- free drinks!). We then went across the street to another bar with a band, and the women decided that they liked us girls now, and they starting buying ROUNDS for us, as they were crazy dancing. Next thing you know, it's 2:00am, we are at Jimmy John's eating sandwiches, and none of us had spent more than a few dollars.

We now refer to these women as the Real Housewives of Durham.

While this was certainly fun, by far the best part of Durham was seeing my cousins, Jon and Pat. Pat lives about 45 minutes away, so they drove to meet us on Saturday in between our shows for dinner. We were only able to hang out for about an hour, but it was GREAT!!