South Carolina / North Carolina Vacation PART TWO

The next stop was Greenville, SC where our cousins live. We went to the pool, played in the yard, cooked great meals, went to the Happy Cow Creamery and went out for some wonderful sushi while we were there. A few days later we headed up to Asheville to visit the Biltmore and stay a night in town. After that we headed to Lake Jocassee in the NW corner of SC - even parts of the lake are in NC. This lake was one of the prettiest southern lakes we have ever seen. We would love to go back one day and rent a cabin for a week.

The Biltore. The weather was really beutiful our entire time in northern SC/NC.


Taking a break after walking through the house.


Avery LOVES the homemade water slide.

We went to the Happy Cow Creamery and saw some kissing cows.

Tomatoes from Bobby's garden. And they were excellent in the cucumber salad that night for dinner.

This lake had multiple waterfalls throughout all the many hidden areas off from the main lake


This jump looks small here, but he said it was much longer than it looked. If you look real close you can see that Scott is so white he sparkles. (Must read/watch Twilight to know what I am talking about)

Scott must have taken this picture of Sherri enjoying the day on the boat

Spring and Avery playing in the water

Davis called Scott the "Merman". Here he is being slowly pulled behind the boat.

Davis

Reid (and Avery in the background pouting about something (always drama at 4 1/2)

'Cousin Cautious'

Avery enjoying herself

Avery and Reid pose - Avery is tired of my camera.

One of the many islands on the lake. This was our last stop before heading in.

Swimming to the island


Enjoying the cruise on th way back in - what a GREAT day on the lake!

South Carolina / North Carolina Vacation PART ONE

We headed up to Charleston on a Friday morning. We got a later start that we had planned and Avery wanted to go to the bathroom every 15 minutes or so. Needless to say it was a very, very long ride. Once we finally got into town we met my cousin and his wife at the restaurant and I think I must have downed a beer in less than 2 minutes. No kidding. Driving with these two can be rather stressful and I drove the entire way. Once we wrapped up lunch, we headed over to see DD (she came up and stayed the night at her neice Claire's house right up the road from where we were staying) so we could drop Avery off with her for the evening (actually, the next two evenings). It was such a nice night of no kids, good food and too many drinks, but it was all so very necessary - we were in need of some serious adult time. We were in Isle of Palms/Sullivan's Island to see JJ Grey & Mofro. We had planned to go Saturday night, but ended up going Friday night (last 6 songs) as well. They were great! Saturday AM about 11 we finally were ready to go to Charleston to have breakfast/lunch and I was the only one that was a little rough around the edges, but nothing that a McDonalds hamburger couldn't fix.

It was SO hot in Charleston - the car registered 107 degrees. That weekend was the tall ships festival, but it was entirely too hot to even get out of the car. We all met our other cousin Kenneth at Hymen's and enjoyed a few po boy sandwiches. I was lucky enough to sit at the very seat where Sandra Bullock had sat once before. This restraunt leaves little plaques where all the celebrities sit at the tables. Kind of cute. Saturday night we had a great meal and headed out to Sullivan's Island to see the concert. The concert was just as good as the night before.

Sunday morning we all got up and headed out of Charleston. We headed to our next vacation destination - Bennettsville, SC. We needed to go pick up Avery and spend the night on the farm with Grandad and DD. When we got there we were pretty much useless - all that adult partying had caught up with us, so we laid in the hammock and took it easy, cooked dinner and took a few 4 wheeler rides.

Charleston, SC 107 degrees

In Bennettsville, SC...
We took some pictures out in the fields.

Riding the 4 wheeler out to the fields.

Chillin' with her Daddy


Scott was trying to take a cool Stafford pic.

7AM 4 wheeler ride down to the pond to take pictures.

Delayed a bit

Sorry about the lack of bloggage. I am about 1/2 way through sorting and editing the vacation pictures. I hope I can get to it soon. In the meantime here is a picture of Avery on a hike in the woods on our trip to SC.

July 4th on I-75

We are on our way back home from a fun filled SC/NC week long trip.
More pictures and stories to follow tomorrow, but in the meantime, here is my view from the last 6 hours. Thank goodness for the wireless card. Now if I could just find that baby Sominex...