Clay's 45th High School Reunion

Last night we drove to Kinston and back for Clay's 45th High School Reunion. I think this is the 3rd, or possibly, the 4th reunion we've attended for Grifton High's class of 1967 since we moved to NC. This was the 2nd one in a row held at The Baron and The Beef restaurant outside Kinston. It is nice. They have a good-sized private room and the food is good, plentiful and reasonably priced. They do separate bills, so there is no money to collect, everyone just pays at the end of the evening. My only observed downside is that it is a low-ceilinged, wood panelled room and it is very noisy! They had the largest attendance this year that we have seen, probably between 40 and 50 people attended. We aren't on Facebook, but that is evidently where the group is active. It was fun. The funniest was the guy that said he knew Clay's family had moved to Grifton for his Dad, Warner to work at Dupont when it opened. He wanted to know if it was from MD or Va, as he knew all the Burch kids were so smart because they were from up North somewhere. We cracked up laughing when Clay tried to convince him that his family had moved from Walstonburg to Grifton. It ended up that he wasn't the only one who had assumed that the Burchs had arrived in Grifton from the North! How funny! Clay spent from Grade 1 to Grade 12 all in one school! The other remarkable thing was that they had 1 teacher and 1 principal from their high school years in attendance last night and they both looked fitter/younger than many of the students. Even if they had both been very early in their education careers, I don't know how that was possible! Sorry no photos! Clay forgot his camera and even left his phone locked in the car last night! So, while there were plenty of photographers there last night, we have not a single photo. If I run into a link of someone else's photos from last night, I'll be sure to come back here and update this post with the link.

We didn't get home until around midnight, so we're not too energetic today. We had planned to drive to Chapel Hill to collect a prize I won last week from 100.7 The River radio station's website, but Clay is still sleeping in the living room so that may have to wait for another weekend. Every week they give away a prize pack from an NC craft brewery. I don't drink beer, but Clay does, so I entered for him. Clay woke up around 3pm, so we drove to Chapel Hill. We had lunch at Carolina Brewery. Clay had a Copperline Amber Ale and the Large fish & chips. He liked it but was glad he got the large one since it had one small piece of fish along with a much smaller broken off fraction of a small piece of fish. I had the pulled pork BBQ sandwich with homemade chips. Mine was good too and filling. Then we went back downstairs and submitted my printed email to claim my prize. They are giving away this same prize once a week for a month, but I must have been the first one in to claim one because they had no idea what was going on. In the end though, we walked out with a six-pack of cans of Sky Blue Golden Ale and Flagship IPA, 2 pint glasses with those beers' logos on them, a pair of blue plastic sunglasses and a sky blue croakie that won't fit the big legs of the sunglasses. It was a nice lunch and a nice prize.

We had a surprise visit this morning from Clay's brother Dew and his wife, Kim. They were in town for Cary's Lazy Daze yesterday. It was good to see them and have a little visit.

We are gearing up for our next big trip, but it probably qualifies for Road Trip as much as DCL's Hawaiian trip did! So, stay tuned for a link here if nothing else. We're taking another Caravan Tours trip with Mom and her friend, Judy.