May 16, 2004

 terry's visit, continued

while ray & his mom are at church (a sacrfice ray is making because it's easier than dealing with the guilt of just dropping mom off at the door), i have a few minutes to update.

the primate center made me sad. i was more or less promised that it wouldn't, but it did. the center keeps hundreds of lemurs in their wild, natural area, but of course we didn't see those. we were led on a tour of about 30 lemurs in cages and cinderblock rooms. it broke my heart. ray tried to comfort me by saying, "but they live longer lives here..." but i know i wouldn't want to live a long life inside a box, even if i knew that my hosts were doing all they could to rescue my species.

anyway, that's the only bad thing that has happened since terry arrived (and i think i was the only one who didn't enjoy that tour); everything else has gone smoothly and flawlessly. she's such an easy houseguest, content to nap in the afternoons and just watch what our lives are like.

we had a small dinner party for her last night. i cooked a pork tenderloin that came out pretty well, as well as mashed taters and snap peas. joe made an amazing applesauce and mary cooked a red pepper soup that had us all exclaiming. really great stuff. for dessert charo had the brilliant idea to whip some cream for the fresh strawberries she bought at the farmers market that morning. it was all good. and ray even spotted a comet in his telescope after the meal.

i put this in the comments on the previous post, but our friday trip to duke gardens & duke chapel were really nice, too, as was our dinner at pop's on friday night.

this afternoon we're going to see the nc symphony. terry leaves tomorrow afternoon.

ooh, also, one GIANT shout-out to charo for swapping cars with us this weekend. she's taking my un-airconditioned 2-seat CRX while we use her 4-door, A/C enhanced civic. thanks, charo!!

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