Mistah and I love North Carolina terribly, but we'd always found ourselves either in Western North Carolina -- in the mountains, and in our beloved Asheville -- or way out there in the East, in the Outer Banks.
But we told Chapel Hill Girl that although we never quite found ourselves in the center of that fair state, we would make a solid plan to visit her in Chapel Hill. Before she graduated. Guaranteed.
Fast forward a couple of years. We landed in New London in 2008 and haven't gone all that far since then. But all of a sudden in 2012 we could hear the dulcet tones of our niece way down there in central North Carolina singing: "Aunt Ellie . . . Uncle Bill . . . I'm graduating in a few weeks!"
So to Chapel Hill we went.
Actually, we thought we were going to Chapel Hill. But like the true Asheville-Girl she is, Colleen lives in Carrboro.
And Carrboro is where, after an awesome visit to Col's mom and sister and brother in Asheville first, we met our girl.
Carrboro is a really cool town.
And since it's in North Carolina, it has really good beer.
And really good old Volvos. Mistah loved this guy.
And oh how we both loved this girl.
Mistah, as usual, was
yakkedy . . .
. . . yakkedy . . .
. . . yakkedy . . .
. . . yak.
Oh, and we had some beers to drink. Plus Mistah needed to practice his awesome new beer-photography technique.
Colleen only had one or two -- she needed to go back home to, you know, study and finish college and all that.
But all that's behind her now. As of yesterday.
Congrats, Col!
. . . and Colleen was an awesome tour guide.
Mistah and I kept comparing poor ol' UConn circa 1985 to Chapel Hill and, well, things in Chapel Hill are a lot more vivid and vibrant than things were in Storrs.
Poor Storrs.
And Colleen and I?
Well, we continued to yak.
Actually, "yak" is probably not a good synonym to use for "talk incessantly" whenst in front of Chapel Hill's Old Well.
I think the Chancellor lives here.
And this is one of both Mistah's and my favorite photos from that awesome morning.
Oh, wait. This one too.
And totally this one.
It's kind of embarrassingly gorgeous there.
It's so, like, "College Campus."
Aw. Colleenie and her Uncle Schleckah in front of the place she
The place you go to
Aw, Col. How we loved visiting your campus . . .
. . . both of us.
Yakkedy-yak. |
And now? Our darlin' girl? After this awesome tour whaddya say we go to your house and hang out with you and your housemates?
I so love this, and now want to move to North Carolina. I mean, just Asheville alone makes you want to move, but Corrboro looks great, and wow, UNC? Fabu!
ReplyDeleteChapel Hill girl looks magnificent as well. I can hardly wait to see where she goes from here/there....
And, Ellie, "Mastah Photographah"? Pure awesomeness!
xoxo,
Beth
Beautiful Ellie, I can't wait to see it all on graduation/Colleen's birthday/Mother's Day - yep, all on the same day... love, mom
ReplyDeleteOh, how you peeps make me swoon. Chapel Hill looks gorge, how sad that I never went there. Maybe Erin or Joe will make it possible, lol. Can't wait to get my hands on that LaLa girl!!!
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Jacquie
thanks for visiting my LaLa girl, and chronicling the last stretch of her Chapel Hill days. I have the bestest sisters in the west. And the east, and the mid-west.
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