{"id":7616,"date":"2012-03-13T08:51:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T13:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=7616"},"modified":"2020-11-10T16:55:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T21:55:11","slug":"duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/13\/duke\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To keep our sanity on the weekends when we are all home and crammed in our small space and getting on each others nerves, we usually spend much of the day outside or at least outside of the townhouse.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday Andy and Eva and I went to over to Duke. Duke is only down the road and they have an amazing garden so it was the perfect escape for a warm sunny day.<\/p>\n<p>Eva loved it, there are a lot of water features, ponds, fountains, etc. Her fave.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7618\" title=\"IMG_8615copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8615copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8615copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8615copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She took off, apparently ready for college<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7620\" title=\"IMG_8623copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8623copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8623copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8623copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7621\" title=\"IMG_8627copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8627copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8627copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8627copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Duke is a very goth looking college. It reminds us of Hogwarts. Both UNC and Duke are very old. But they are so different looking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7622\" title=\"IMG_8628copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8628copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8628copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8628copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8628copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8628copy-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7623\" title=\"IMG_8630copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8630copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8630copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8630copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8630copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8630copy-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cole would have loved running through this huge open area. But he wanted to stay home with the brothers \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>The bamboo forest scared Eva a little at first- until she walked in it and then she loved it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7625\" title=\"IMG_8647copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8647copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8647copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8647copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8647copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8647copy-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait to go back when there is more in bloom besides the bulbs. And I need to dig up the pictures of when we were there 13 years ago- running through with a one-year-old Austin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7624\" title=\"IMG_8635copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8635copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8635copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8635copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8635copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8635copy-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To keep our sanity on the weekends when we are all home and crammed in our small space and getting on each others nerves, we usually spend much of the day outside or at least outside of the townhouse. On Sunday Andy and Eva and I went to over to Duke. Duke is only down the road and they have an amazing garden so it was the perfect escape for a warm sunny day. Eva loved it, there are a lot of water features, ponds, fountains, etc. Her fave. She took off, apparently ready for college Duke is a very goth looking college. It reminds us of Hogwarts. Both UNC and Duke are very old. But they are so different looking. Cole would have loved running through this huge open area. But he wanted to stay home with the brothers \ud83d\ude41 The bamboo forest scared Eva a little at first- until she walked in it and then she loved it. Can&#8217;t wait to go back when there is more in bloom besides the bulbs. And I need to dig up the pictures of when we were there 13 years ago- running through with a one-year-old Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[210],"class_list":["post-7616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-duke-gardens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_8612copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17943,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616\/revisions\/17943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}