Cooke Street Carnival 2010

Not only are we homeowners, but we are charitable as well! We, including Buckley, went to the Cooke Street Carnival yesterday. It is a block party where most of the processed go towards Habitat for Humanity. There is also really good food trucks,beer, bands, and lots of family fun (that sounded cheesy, but it's the truth).

Since Latin Teacher used to live one street over with Will (see below) he has lots of friends living in the neighborhood and we got a primo spot on the front porch and (fenced in) backyard of the Christians.


The puppy you can actually see if Lola, she is Buckley's Cooke Street Girlfriend,he has a few... (don't hate the playa, hate the game) you'll get a taste of their relationship a little later. He was trying to show off for Lola and actually jumped this fence when Latin Teacher and I were out exploring. Good thing the Christans were there to see him trot around (of course tail held high) and put him back behind the fence. Latin Teacher wasn't even mad that he jumped. LT was more impressed than anything, I mean look how short he is compared to the fence!


There was a pretty good crowd for mid afternoon on a Saturday. There were some people missing, I assume because they were watching NC State get stomped by my ECU Pirates. But after the domination was over, people came out in droves to see the bands, eat good and sustainable food, and drink local beer.

I don't know whose dog this is, but he was acting like a dream ::cough cough:: unlike Buckley. But I thought people might want to see this sweet pup as much as I do.

Not only where there lots of pups, there were TONS of kids too! It's really nice to show your kids these fun street carnival things it's good to get them out hanging with new kids and adults.
There were probably 15 of these boards where people can stick their heads through. You can't really tell, but this little girl is one of the cutest little girl we hangout with right now.

Here she is, This is Aida! She was tiny when I first started dating Latin Teacher, and now she's a little woman. She just kinda climbed into someone's chair that was on the side of the road. She might have thought it was "her chair", evidently she's in that stage right now. Oh having kids will be such as adventure.

Here is a better picture of Lola Christan. Shes sitting next to her mother, Jenn and isn't really looking at me as much as she's making googly eyes at Mr. Buckley.

Here she comes... Nothing and no one can stop her from our boy. She's hooked.
Latin Teacher and I are trying our hardest to hold him back. Look at those eyes... he feels it too.

And the fun begins. Latin Teacher and I could have stopped it if we wanted to, but they weren't getting in anyone's way and were having a good time, so we just let it happen.

She's really showing him whose boss... Like any good woman. She's also older and slightly bigger, but whose counting.

After all that Buckley was worn out and his parents were getting hungry so we got some Only Burger. They were on the Food Network's "The Great Food Truck Race" they are from Durham and they travel around the triangle in their truck selling really good burgers (if you like that kinda thing, which most people do). You can follow them on twitter, if that's also you're thing.

This is Will, he was Latin Teacher's Roommate for the 3 years before we moved in together. He was partially the reason Latin Teacher and I even met. We went over to his place, which is a street over from the carnival, to eat our Only Burger. About this time we also realized it was almost 7 pm and our sweet heart-breaker of a puppy had not had any dinner (by the way look how good he's being right now, he definitely knew there was food around). So we made our way home to fall asleep in the living room. It was a really nice day :)