I went to my very first yoga class today! It was fun, but there was definitely some stuff I couldn't do. Apparently I need to do more ab work. But I was pretty good with the leg stuff. I could stand to be a bit stretchier, but what can you do? E and I went, along with her friend T who came up from Wilmington for the day.
After yoga, the three of us, along with some of E's other friends, went to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences! Yesterday was BugFest, and outside the museum entrance there was a giant butterfly carved out of sand that was trucked in from the beach. There was also a giant shark's mouth that a full-grown adult could easily swim into without ever knowing you were inside a shark! They say this "Megatooth Shark" was and ancestor of the Great White. Twenty-five of his (possibly 308!) teeth were found in NC in 1992, and donated to the museum.
The reason we went, though was because there was a special Chocolate exhibit. It was all about the history of chocolate: the Mayans and the cacao tree, trading with the Aztecs who made a drink out of it, the Spanish invaders who took it back to Europe and added sugar, all the way through the modern making of candy bars. And we got a little piece of chocolate when we bought our tickets! The rest of the museum had free admission, and there were some cool things.
After the Chocolate, we went back to Mom's house for a bar passage party! There were 8 people in attendance: Mom, E, E's friend T from Wilmington, E's housemate, Mom's friends J and P, E's boyfriend B, and me (duh). We drank Vampire wine (red, of course), and there was some white too, and ate loads of food: chips and mango salsa, crackers with gouda, salad, baked chicken, risotto, asparagus, bread, pumpkin soup, and CAKE!
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