A couple of weeks ago Lindee & I went to the library in Rock Hill to hear author Vanessa Miller speak about her book, The American Queen. It is a true story about this group of freed slaves, after the Civil War, who formed a sort of commune in the mountains of North Carolina. It sounded so interesting, and I had never heard anything about it. I did buy a copy, just haven’t started on it yet, but can’t wait to do so.

A couple of weeks ago Meg & I headed to Columbia, where we picked Mallory up & spent the afternoon at the South Carolina State Museum. I didn’t get any pictures of it, but in the planetarium they were having a show about the northern lights in Iceland, and we really wanted to see that. We had fun checking out the exhibits while we were there, too. I actually had no idea that an astronaut from South Carolina had walked on the moon until our preacher had mentioned it at Bible study the week before, so I was excited to see that exhibit.

We didn’t have time to check out nearly all of the exhibits, but I did enjoyed all of the history we learned about on every floor.

Every year on the Saturday closest to Valentines Day Epiphany Lutheran Church in Rock Hill hosts their annual Chocolate Festival, and Meg & I always try not to miss it. This year I won not one but TWO of the raffle baskets – a kitchen basket and the teenage basket. The way they were fixed up was so pretty, and there were so many nice things in both of them.