For our first post-Banana weekend, we decided we needed a way to distract ourselves from sadness and also take advantage of the newfound freedom of being able to leave the house for more than 8 hours at a time. We drove to historic Hillsborough, North Carolina, about 45 minutes away, to visit the Ayr Mount plantation house.
It was great! There was only one other couple on the tour so it was a very personalized experience. The tour guide was really knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the house's history and architecture. We sure do love a historic house tour.
After the tour we drove into downtown Hillsborough and got lunch at the Saratoga Grill, a cute restaurant on the second floor of a little shop, overlooking the main drag of downtown. We had eaten a bunch of fried things and dessert the night before so both got salads which were huge and delicious!
Then we walked down the main street and visited the Orange County Historical Museum, where we saw the only complete set of colonial weights and measures in the United States!!!!
And then we kept walking a little more to see the Burwell School, which was one of the first women-only schools in North Carolina. One of the girls who lived there was a slave who ended up buying her freedom as an adult and being Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker.
It was a good little trip! It has us interested to visit the other plantations and historical sites around the area that for some reason we have never bothered to see.
And finally, here is the state of my head. This was on Saturday and I think it already looks longer only four days later. It's really growing in earnest now, and I am close to looking more like Furiosa than Cancer Patient. In another couple of weeks Ben and I are going to be genuine hair twins, which is every man's dream, right? To be hair twins with your wife?
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