June, Mason, & I didn’t get to go on our Summer Kick Off Adventure until this week.  Between June’s involvement in STArts, and our vacation, this is all we could do.  Wednesday, though, we took a picnic and headed to Ebenezer Park in Rock Hill.  They stayed in the water the entire day except when we were eating lunch, and were especially excited when the ducks came over to swim with them 🙂

Tuesday evening we went with the church kids to play goofy golf in Gastonia.  It was a small group – it’s 4th of July week, plus hot as blazes outside – but those of us who went had a good time.

This week we were back out watching Mallory do what she loves best. She plays junior golf in the summer with several girls from maybe a four county area – girls that she will play with or against once the school season rolls around in the fall. We hadn’t seen her play in eight or nine months, so it was fun. She loves it so much.  In this picture she was putting for par, which she made.  I hate I didn’t get a picture of her happy dance after that 🙂

We left French Lick at 6 AM Saturday morning, to head to Goodfellas in Henryville to meet Mark, Susan, Bobby, David, and Marcelene for breakfast.  Charlie and Adam had seen the road signs for Amish buggies when they were there, and asked if there really were any around.  And that morning we saw two on our drive!

Ever since I heard about them, I’d been looking for the Reeses Peanut Butter Cups with less pb & more chocolate.  We found them at a stop in Tennessee, and I was so excited.  We really didn’t like them as well as the originals.  You just can’t mess with perfection 🙂

Friday when we were in French Lick, Jeff’s niece Leigh came over to visit us at the condo, along with her husband Stephen & her precious boys David and Will.  Stephen is a preacher, and got a call while he was there that a plumber was heading to the church, so he left, but Jeff & I went out to eat lunch with Leigh and the boys.  We went to Hagen’s, a restaurant at one of the historical golf courses in French Lick.  Walter Hagen won the 1924 PGA Championship there, which was pretty cool.  Also delicious.  I got this picture on the porch of the club house.  So nice.

And Jeff got this picture of the beautiful boys and the beautiful flowers as we were heading to the car afterwards.

I got this group picture before Arielle & family had to leave the zoo to get home for Bella’s softball practice.  It was in the Amazonia building, right in front of the tarantulas and hissing cockroaches 🙂

We finished up our visit feeding the giraffes.