It sounds like a great place to take kids. Oh, it's so family-oriented. Every time I go home, that's what we look forward to - going out to eat and then going to the game.

You're about to be a new mom - do you have any other family-friendly recommendations? There's the North Carolina Museum of Art. They just had Monet there. … I mean the paintings, of course - not him, because that would really be incredible, right? And there's Exploris and the Museum of History, which are great hands-on learning environments for kids. And there's the North  Carolina School of the Arts, so all the towns and cities have great performing-arts programs and opportunities. There are little theaters and dinner theaters everywhere - like the old-school kind. Two of the best are the Raleigh Little Theatre and the Memorial Auditorium.

You mentioned that going to the beach is probably your best childhood memory. Tell us a bit more about that. Well, as I said, Shackleford Banks is near Morehead City. You go over this bridge - on one side of the street is the ocean, and on the other, there's the sound. On the sound side, there's a place called Beaufort - it's a little marina town that's about five minutes from Morehead City. Everyone, like Ivana Trump and so on, takes their huge, beautiful boats there. My favorite place in the world is called the Dock House. It's been there since before I was born. And it has live music, right there on the dock. It's an old, white, two-story house that was converted years ago to this restaurant. So you can sit upstairs or downstairs, overlooking the boats, listening to the live music, and having great seafood.

Wow, it sounds like a slice of heaven. Yeah, that's where you want to throw a party.

What sort of music do they play? Have you ever seen the movie Shag?