Next we drove to Raleigh, NC where we spent 2 days with our friends Steph & Adam who moved from Boston to Raleigh last February. We had some GOOOOOOD home cookin' from Steph. She made from scratch cinnamon rolls for breakfast, homemade yummy tomato soup and grilled cheeses for lunch, and balsamic marinated pork chops with creamed spinach and corn for dinner. SO SO DELICIOUS!!! We played a game of Settlers of Catan where Adam won (again). We went to the Duke Gardens and walked around, and got the tour of the Durham/Raleigh/Chapel Hill area - very nice! Very Southern! We definately crossed the Northern/Southern line by driving from DC to Raleigh. We also got to be part of their first church service in a building, which was so fun to be part of -- there was about 15 people there. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pics on my camera from Raleigh, but they are coming so I'll update later.
Next we drove on to Knoxville, TN to visit our friends Greg & Allison who moved from Boston to Knoxville to be part of starting a church there. We got the grand tour of Knoxville from Allison who grew up there - it was nice. Bruce really likes Tennessee -- he says it's his 2nd favorite state (obviously the first being Texas). We walked around the mall and took Elijah to the play place in the mall and to this big park one afternoon. He loved it!
At a store in Knoxville
Elijah at the park in Knoxville - he liked picking up the rocks and dropping them again. And he loved the slide because it had some turns in it. We have a video of him going down it where he's laughing going down the whole time.
Elijah snuck into the snack bag and somehow opened the raisins and was eating huge handfuls of raisins at a time - in this pic his cheeks are full of raisins. I don't think you understand how much this kid loves raisins. He will always pick out the raisins first out of anything you give him.
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