Fun in North Carolina

I took Jilda to her training class just before lunch today and then headed out exploring. Yesterday when I was doing a little research on the area, I discovered there is an Orvis store here. They sell outdoors stuff, but they have really cool fly fishing stuff so as you can imagine, that found its way onto my schedule today.
I picked up a few things and spent a lot of time browsing.
Afterwards I headed down to Moore's Square on the recommendation of my blog buddy Sush.
It's an area downtown where there are tons of restaurants, bars, galleries, and other fun stuff. 
I stopped by a small Italian restaurant and found a table on the sidewalk.
I order sweet tea and an Italian club sandwich. I spent time watching people while I waited for my food to arrive.
Across the street was a huge two story building housing a business called the artspace. It was a gallery, a place where artists work, and they had art classes. The place was buzzing.
I love areas like this.  I could have stayed there all day but I had some writing to do so reluctantly I headed back to the hotel.
This evening just after five, I headed down to Apex to fetch Jilda and find a place to have dinner.
She was whupped so we did something we rarely do, which is to eat at a chain restaurant.
The food and service was good.
We sat near a table full of young women in their early twenties. We overheard part of their conversation and one of the girls said, "that won't happen to me when I get old."
When she realized that we might have heard her, the conversation hushed. Both Jilda and I smiled knowing that we said things like that a lot when we were kids. 
What I wanted to tell them was that Jilda and I were their age yesterday -- yes, time moves that quickly. Be mindful of what you say about what you will and will not do when you "get old" because believe me, you'll get there in the blink of an eye.
Tomorrow Jilda has class until four and then we head out on our 10 hour drive, so our blog entries tomorrow night might be unintelligible. 
Y'all have a great Sunday.


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