Up to South Carolina for Christmas

We decided to head on up to Carolina a day earlier than originally planned so we could make dentist and dog appointments... so we stuffed the car.. jeez we're only going for a week, but we brought up a table, and also a big compressor for our pals Dave and Bev to use..  374 miles and about 8 hours later, we pulled into Saddle Hill. 

According to the Fit's on board computer, we averaged 39.3 miles per gallon.  Wow!  Started out as a beautiful traveling day, desintegrated into a bit cold and rainy by the time we headed out for dinner...

We stopped for fuel at a Flying J, and then did lunch at a subway in Swainsboro.

Think it was near there, I noticed a repurposed old Coke bottle factory building, these little bottle plants used to dot the south, we had one in Newberry, that I remember seeing being used back in the middle 60's, before they consolidated all their operations, beautiful old buildings with the Coke logo..

Made it to Saddle Hill about 4, boys were glad to see us... and we them.  We all headed out to our traditional O'Charley's welcome home dinner, and had a nice family meal..  sorry for the picture quality..  and Brandon as usual didn't want his photo taken....

From there, the boys and I headed to our annual tradition of going to Lander University in town to see the High School Christmas Classic basketball game..  Saw 1.5 very good games, on the boys side...

Might go back tonight as see the championship game.. think Cooper wants to go.

This morning, the menfolk got up and went to the Little Breakfast place for breakfast, then the boys and I went out to Game Stop so Brandon could get a game he wanted, then later, Cooper and I headed over to the YMCA so he could work on his basketball shooting, then he and I went to lunch at McDonalds.

Bette has been over at Bev and Daves all morning, working on patterns and hanging out.   Buster went to get groomed this morning, as well as Beau. 

Everyone is vegging out here at the house- Tina is working today, so I imagine we'll be on our own for dinner,. then maybe the basketball game....  Still raining off and on.