Second Saturday----Check it out!

North Carolina is doing this really great thing called Second Saturdays. Here is the website if you want to check it out. Basically there are a bunch of activities you can participate in for FREE. There is only one left-so don't miss out! The activities range from photography at the capital to fun things to do at historical sites. We went to the Duke Homestead. We started with some BBQ sandwiches and some live music. The main singer actually looked like Elvis and had some moves like him too!

Next we went up to the home. This guy showed me how to pickle watermelon rinds. I thought this sounded disgusting, but tried it anyway. It was actually pretty good! I didn't know you could eat rinds!

Mom got some boiled peanuts:

This lady was showing us how they would have made sausage in the Duke Homestead:

There was a dress up box full of old clothes...for children. My mom is small enough to fit in them all the way, but my arms wouldn't go through! :( Still pretty fun though!

This was the back of the Homestead with two banjo players:

Some dried tobacco:

This was the curing barn:

I had so much fun that I've already picked out where I want to go on August 10th!

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