Visitors

Posted by: Nic

Sal has started classes again after her summer break and I am gearing up for our canola planting season. Then add to this the steady stream of Australian visitors we’ve had and it has been a busy past few weeks.

Cam Beeck was here for a week. We a great time showing him the sites of Durham. One highlight was an meat eating competition at a Brazilian BBQ - the less said about that the better though. I also dragged him around NCSU where he helped me with our canola research plan. I wanted to show you some pictures but my old Canon digital camera isn’t compatible with my new laptop running Vista.

Mum and Graeme were also here for the past week and a half. They claim to have had a great time touring around Durham, Raleigh and other bits of NC. I took them over to the community garden and they had the chance to met the team. Here is a picture of Gray with Obie and some of the teenagers.

Gray, Anthony, Marquyse, Crystal, Dante and Obie drying chillies.

Mum, Gray and I took a drive up from Raleigh through Virginia to Washington DC. We stopped along the way at Fredricksburg, VA, to see some Civil War monuments. It was interesting to learn more about the US Civil War. The Fredricksburg area saw some heavy fighting during the war. The picture below is a monument on one hill where 3000 men died in a few days. Tragic.

Washington DC was very interesting. We drove up on the Saturday and spent some time just sight-seeing around the capital - the Capitol building, Smithsonian, White House and Washington Monument. The next day we spent about seven hours at Museums. I managed to pack in the National Air and Space Museum, the National History Museum and also the National Botanic Gardens.

The US Capitol Building.