Yesterday we began the day introducing the kids to an icon of the South: Waffle House. 

Since it wasn’t raining, we headed black to Duke to visit their beautiful gardens and walk through campus. The gardens were loaded with flowers and had largest lilly pads I’ve ever seen. Duke’s campus is really beautiful – reminds me of Hogwarts!

We’ve been joking that this trip has been part vacation / part college tour. Over the past two weeks we’ve visited University of Virginia, University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, College of William and Mary, University of North Carolina and Duke University!
A few hours after visiting Duke, we arrived at the fifth leg of our trip: Topsail Island. Topsail Island is south of the Outer Banks, and we’re staying at our friend’s beach house for the remainder of our trip. We had a relaxing rest of the day catching up.