Ted and Deb Visit

We had a nice visit from Jim's mom (Debbie) and his step-dad (Ted)!!! While Jim was at work one day, Colleen gave them a tour of town. She showed them NC State where she goes to school, she showed them North Hills near where we live, and other areas of town. She even cooked a great lunch for Ted, pesto pasta made from basil in Colleen's garden. Ted ate all of it, he really loved it! Then on Thursday night we went to North Hills to the Beach Music Festival that plays every Thursday night in the summer. Here we are sitting in our chairs in the crowd:

The band that week was a great entertaining group! They even danced out on the dance floor and they were really funny when they were talking to the crowd between songs. It was really hot that day, about 92 degrees, they had to be really hot in those cool outfits:

We danced for a little bit too, here are pictures of us dancing!

The next day we went to Cameron Village, a neat outdoot shopping area in the heart of the city not too far from downtown and NCSU. At an antique store we found a cool red flyer wagon that we bought for Julie's shower gift:

We all enjoyed shopping there and almost bought more kids toys! And we found some neat things at the Bargain Box, a thrift store that sells some nice higher end items! Then we had a tasty lunch at Noodles & Company in Cameron Village:

The next morning we had breakfast at a really fancy McDonalds. (yes we are dorks!) It has stone walls, granite counter tops at the register, and even touch screen games at the tables. We played trivia while we ate!

Then as a nice surprise, we were given a new grill by them for an early anniversary gift! Here we are with our new grill!!!

We used it the first night, we had all of our in-town cousins over. Colleen's cousins Christine and Charlene, and Jim's cousin Johnny and his wife Merideth. We grilled up and ate on our patio:
Then we got the fire pit going. It took two people to get the fire going, the wood in the backyard was all wet:

Eventually we got the fire going and we had some beers, s'mores, and enjoyed sitting out by the fire in out backyard!