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We live in an industrial/corporate area right in between Durham and Raleigh.  It’s very quite on the weekends, which has made us wonder how any of the area restaurants have survived (seriously, it looks like a ghost town).  Apparently, they do very well during the week with all of the big office buildings containing lots and lots of hungry employees at lunch time.

This past weekend, The Taste of Durham Festival came to that industrial/corporate area which is a hop, skip, and a jump away from our apartment complex.  We decided to go, mostly because of it’s proximity to us, but also because it would provide a nice afternoon/evening “out on the town” for baby Claire.  They had restaunt vendors lined up, live music, dancing exhibitions, a wine garden, lots of aired-up play equipment for kids, and my personal favorite, a beer tasting garden.

Claire spent most of the time in her stroller just looking around.  She usually does that when there’s A LOT of stuff going on.  It’s almost like sensory overload for her because you can’t get much of a response out of her.  She’s so distracted by everything going on, where as if she’s at home with just a couple of people in attendance, she’ll ham it up and be just as silly as can be!

And because we took Claire to the festival, she is now famous!  Well, kinda sorta.  There were several photographers walking around taking pictures of all of the people, and baby Claire just happened to be one of them!  The picture below was/is posted on the WRAL.COM website, which is a local TV station.

We ran into a former co-worker of Colleen’s, Elaine, and her husband Mike at the festival.  She actually designed the Taste of Durham Festival website, which was very good if I do say so myself (with my big fancy PE degree and all!).  Since she designed the website for free, the festival organizer felt inclined to give her tons and tons of tokens for the event, which she kindly passed some on to us!  I used a good portion of the extra coins to sample beers in the beer garden, but we also tried just about every type of food available, as well as Colleen getting some ice cream for the road.  Thanks again for the hook-up, Mike and Elaine!

Overall, it was a good evening for the wiggle worm.  She enjoyed the music and all of the different types of foods, as well as her 15 minutes of fame on the TV station’s website