Tuesday morning my friend Charlotte & I headed to Rock Hill to check out this little place I’d heard about – that they had the best hotdogs and milkshakes in town. Alas, when we got there we found that the kitchen was closed for remodeling, so we headed to TJ’s Restaurant, one of my favorites, and had a delicious breakfast. I did get this picture of the mural on the wall of the Surefire Neighborhood Grill – it’s located right down the street from Sunset Park Elementary School – to hold us over til we can get back & try those hotdogs.
Monday was Meg’s birthday, and I went over that afternoon to have cake and ice cream with her family. Little Hope was home for the long weekend, & there really isn’t anything Meg would have loved more. She had to work on a lot of school papers, but we did get to visit for a little while. I got this picture of the two of them just before I headed home.
Meg took me back to Charlotte to the doctor very early Tuesday morning for my checkup from my cataract surgery the day before, and afterwards we decided to find a breakfast spot nearby. We found a great place called Snooze, and it was perfect. The food was delicious, and neither of us had a mimosa, but they are Lindee’s favorites, so I took this picture to send her to so she can be planning for the next time we go, when she accompanies us 🙂
Sunday after the service a group of us headed to Albemarle, NC – about an hour and a half down the road – to celebrate our friend Pam’s 70th birthday. After lunch we went & saw a program by the Raleigh Ringers, a world renowned handbell choir out of, of course, Raleigh. It was so, so good. I got just a couple of pictures during their performance – while they were entering…
…and the last song we got to hear (we had to leave before it was over to get back to church for a meeting several of our bunch needed to attend), which was Don’t Fear the Reaper. Not what I would expect from a handbell choir, of course, and it was a take off on the hilarious Saturday Night Live skit. You can see the guy who was playing Will Ferrell’s part in this picture. It was great. The whole afternoon was.
Saturday evening Jeff & I met Sherri and Gary in Winnsboro, to visit the South Carolina Railroad Museum. What a fun place. There were several old train cars we could walk through. It’s a small museum, staffed almost entirely by volunteers, so refurbishing the cars is very much a work in progress. I loved looking through them, and it was kind of cool that they were still so much like they had been when they were in use. This was the kitchen in one of the fancier railroad cars. It was so much fun to check out.
After we toured through the train cars we actually rode one of the trains, just seven or eight miles down the track, to a restored office building of an old granite quarry in the area, which was very cool in itself, and had a delicious barbecue supper. Along the way we crossed a couple of highways. One of them had a bar that came down, like a regular crossing, but the other one, here, didn’t have a crossing sign, so one of the workers on the train had to just get out with a stop sign to stop any traffic that came along. I didn’t get a picture while he was out there – just this one of the highway as we crossed over it. So much fun.
I never got a single picture of Jeff working on the ramp for his new shed, but did manage to get out to get pictures of him caulking – the final step on the outside. He still has to build the loft inside, but I sure am proud of all of his hard work.
…was Thursday night, so we were in Rock Hill at District 3 Stadium for that. The game didn’t go their way, but Adam played a lot of the game, so it was fun watching him in action. He is #50 – I did get this picture sometime when he came off the field.
Another highlight of last weekend was making my first stop ever at a Buc-ee’s. Is that how they spell it? It was an experience, for sure – but the sliced pork loin sandwich I had was yummy.
