Moving
R&B, day 4
Thursday, June 12
We all packed up this morning and left
Rachel and Petey to fend for themselves in Greenville.
Last I heard, Rachel has her living room finished already,
and we made her promise to post pictures when she's
all done.
We've been driving all day, so there's
not much exciting to talk about. Most of the time it
involved me playing video games. If you never realized
that the Gameboy is the greatest travel companion ever
invented, you're missing out. In fact, I can't think
of a trip I've even been on without one Gameboy or
another...
We're probably getting back sometime
around 4:30 or 5:00 tomorrow. Then I can live by myself
again! I'm not very good at living with lots of people...and
did I mention that the bathroom at the apartment is
the kind where you narrowly avoid hitting your head
on the wall every time you go to sit on the toilet?
Oh, on the way out this morning I realized
that I never took a picture of the house from the outside.
Theirs is the porch underneath the stairs.
- Karen
Moving R&B, day 3
Wednesday, June 11
We got everything unloaded and into the
apartment this morning. I hear there was quite a bit
of difficulty returning the moving truck, because it
seems that The World does not accept travelers' checks
any more. Come to think of it, I've never even seen
a travelers' check before...
Matt, Molly (the GPS), and I left around
12:30 for Chapel Hill,
where we were supposed to have someone waiting to give
us a campus tour. It was about a 2-hour drive, and
when we got there we found out that they don't give
3:00 tours any more. So, we gave ourselves a tour of
the geography and music departments and looked around
campus just a bit. We didn't get to talk to anyone
(as the professors are all gone for the summer), but
we did find out that the only masters degree the music
department offers is in musicology, so that's out for
me. The campus was very pretty, and what we saw of
downtown was fun too. We stopped by a bubble tea to
buy a drink and use the free wireless. I got a coconut
bubble tea, called such because of the tapioca pearls,
or "bubbles" floating in the bottom. They're
kind of a strange, nondescipt taste, and almost impossible
to chew.
Our car was parking in a garage on a
road parallel to the main downtown street, and advertised
that you could take Amber Alley to get to the next
street over. Note the preserved insects to the left.
All in all a good trip, even though we
had no tour. And we got to play with Molly too!
- Karen
Moving R&B, day 2
Tuesday, June 10
Right now Matt and I are sitting with
our computers at the bar in Rachel and Blair's new
kitchen, with no internet connection. The rest of our
caravan is supposed to be showing up around 11:00.
We got to Greenville around 5:00 and found the apartment,
which is, to say the least, a very small step above
Donaldson Brothers. It's actually a really big house
divided up into 5 apartments. So we've spent the afternoon
unpacking what was in the van and doing some repairs.
Our shoes were dirty after bringing in
the boxes (it was raining) so Matt and Shanna left
theirs on the porch. And before they knew it, the shoes
were gone! Turns out that Dixie, the friendly dog who
greeted us upon our arrival, is also a bit of a cleptomaniac.
We found all the shoes, but I don't think Matt's are
dry yet...
We've got our fleet of air matresses
inflated and ready to go for whenever everyone else
gets here. I know you won't be reading either of these
posts until tomorrow, at least. Matt and I are driving
two-ish hours to the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill for a campus tour tomorrow, and are hoping
they will have wireless. Wish us luck!
- Karen
Moving R&B, day 1
Monday, June 9
Well, we finally made it halfway to North
Carolina. In case you don't know, we're helping Rachel
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