It’s 4:14 pm. Yesterday I mostly worked on getting the first activity ready for my class, and in the afternoon I did my “pull” workout. I watched “Comedians in Cars Drinking Coffee” on the exercise bike, and a woman came over and complained that it was too loud, she was trying to work on a research problem on her bicycle. Guess I should have brought out my headphones. Haha. It is annoying when other people play their phones in public, not sure why I decided to do it.
Yesterday evening we Pho with beef ribs, bok choy, and a chicken with mushroom dish. The pho with noodle was especially tasty. After dinner, we decided to head to a bar downtown with the kids and Ying Ying. We decided to go to Tyler’s in the American Tobacco District. We had to pay $7 to use the parking garage because there was a Bull’s game. I decided to drive to the top to get a view. The garage is 7 stories tall. We took a bunch of pictures.
American Tobacco has this creek running all along it, which got the kids really excited and running around. Tyler’s had closed down two months prior. It’s been there since before I got to Duke, guess there’s just a lot more restaurant options now. But they had a beer garden with some DJ guy really into his kind of crappy mix, with the obligatory girlfriend standing next to him acting really into it. I tried 3 beers and got one.
Then we decided to move on, walking towards the Bulls stadium. The Durham Bulls were playing the Buffalo Bison. That’s a lot of Bull. I asked the gate lady if there was a time during the game when you could go in for free. She said no, but there were free tickets available. Nice! We went in for a while and ate some ice cream. Not only was it the kids first baseball game, but it was also the first for Ying Ying. She had only been to basketball and ping pong games before.
After 30 min or so we left to go back home, didn’t get the kids in bed until 9:30.
Today we went to the Children’s museum in the morning. Harvey and Alexandra ran around, climbed stuff, played in the sand, played instruments, saw the animals, saw the Dinosaurs, and dug for fossils. Had to stop by Harris Teeter on the way home to pick up some groceries. Just made some fruit salad and pasta salad for the “Goat Roast” at Richard Palmer’s house tonight. First time for me to go to that event.
