Took a few days off while visiting grandchildren. We landed in Easley, SC just in time for the Clemson Homecoming weekend - which meant, of course, that our motel room was $20 more per day than normal. As far as we're concerned, that's just pure greed, plain and simple. The motel was full - it's not as though they needed to make up for less business! But then again, they didn't ask us for our opinion.
Saturday we drove over to our grandson Brian's house where we visited with him, his sister Jennifer and 4 of their 5 children, Javen, Carson, Bryson and Colton. Our great-granddaughter Hayley was with her dad, so we didn't get to see her. After visiting for a couple of hours, we made plans to meet for dinner that night. Mike and I went back to our motel and just kicked back until time to meet. We had a lovely dinner with Jennifer, her boyfriend Toby and their son Colton. Brian wasn't able to make it with his family, and Jennifer's son Carson decided to hang out with Brian and his boys instead of dinner out. We were very disappointed that Brian wasn't able to be there.
Sunday Jennifer and Colton went to church with me in Pickens. I had heard about this church when I attended church in Millington, TN - turned out to be good preaching at a very nice church. I took Jennifer and Colton home and then spent some time with them looking at old photos and getting to know each other. All in all, it was a great visit and a real blessing to be able to spend time with granddaughter.
I saw my very first real live cardinals yesterday! I love birds, and the only cardinals I had seen before were in photos - very exciting to see them for real!
We left this morning and headed to Columbia, SC, hoping to meet up with my niece Brandi who is stationed at Ft Jackson. We haven't heard from her on Facebook (that's my only means of contact with her) - hope we can get together for dinner before we leave the area. After settling into our motel, we decided to drive into the downtown area to go for a walk in this lovely park they have here. This park is called Finley Park - it has lovely waterfalls and water feature, is fairly clean and well-maintained - but seems to be visited more by homeless folks than anyone else. We decided that maybe we didn't want to walk around the park after all.
Tomorrow we will drive to Bishopville to see Pearl Fryar's Topiary - should be really neat!
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