The Daze starts again - Year 3

      We headed back to Durham on August 20th as Dr. Mullenneaux's semester started on the 26th, but she had meetings leading up to opening day.  The first two weeks down here were hot and humid and  uncomfortable.  The saving grace was getting back into attending sporting events at Duke.  It was fun to catch up with Herb(Crazy Towel Guy), Spiro, and Mark at the opening Nike Soccer Tournament.  Unfortunately we lost both games in OT( UC Santa Barbara beat us in the first one and SMU in the second)  Next, Nan and I went to see a volleyball match with U of San Diego.  No contest - the west coast girls were clearly better.
       Duke sponsors a tailgate party with free tickets to the first football game of the season or all its employees.  The price was right, so we signed up to attend both.  As fate would have it, Herb had two tickets at the 50 yard line that he couldn't use so in addition to the Duke tailgate we tailgated with Crazy Towel Guy and sat in the "good" seats.  We lost to Richmond and appear to be on our way to less than successful football season.  The women's soccer team om the other hand is off to a great start and is ranked in the top 10 nationally.
      For Nan's birthday we took the day off and went to Falls Lake, which is just north of Durham.  We did a little hike on a portion of the Mountain-to-Sea Trail.  This trail will eventually go all the way from Clingman's Dome in the Great Smokey Mtn. NP to the Outer Banks, crossing all of NC. After the hike we lounged by the beach, which we had to ourselves.

After three weeks I flew back north to get ready for Krista's wedding.