Saturday started for me with a long run, which was desperately needed. Thanks to a fortuitous interaction with a woman in E's yoga class, we learned that the Duke Chapel Choir was performing Handel's Messiah this weekend, so we all trooped over to campus to see that, which was lovely!
Amazing architecture in the chapel
The family graduation dinner was at a small place in Chapel Hill called Lantern. Local-Asian, that was their thing. Interesting combo, but the food was tasty, and apparently better for the environment. There was a ton of food at dinner. They did family style appetizer service, with pasture-raised pork dumplings (mushroom dumplings for the vegs), crab and pork spring rolls, salt and pepper shrimp (curried beets for the vegs), a charcuterie plate, and chickpea and potato chaat (loved this!). We had a choice of entrees and dessert; I had the tea- and spice-smoked poulet rouge as a main, which was tender and delicious. Dessert was - you guessed it - molten chocolate cake with coconut ice cream. I have a problem.
Sorry you can't see my dress too well, but it's strapless and pretty short;
I wore it with gray tights and black heels.
Dad was leaving Sunday afternoon, so we spent his and D's last few hours at the oh-so-quaint Fearrington Village, belted farm life and all.
They're ready for the cold weather! Too bad it's still 65 degrees.
A belted goat having breakfast
Fearrington has adorable everything - coffee shop (The Belted Goat - how appropriate), gift shops, bookstore, cows. We shopped for a while (I especially enjoyed browsing the bookstore) then headed off to Raleigh for the Boylan Heights ArtWalk, which was lovely, but I was especially taken with the old southern houses.
We stopped in for some quick but tasty noodles and rice at David's Dumpling & Noodle Bar before heading off to see Life of Pi (more on that later).
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