We got back from our trip to South Carolina last night. The trip back was almost 16 hours long, travelling through seven states. Long day. But Lena did amazingly well in the car. Both on the way there and on the way home she hardly fussed at all. Jim and I were both really surprised at how well she did.
The vacation was nice. Unfortunately the weather didn't really cooperate with us, so we didn't get to spend as much time outside as we would have liked. It rained every single day, often quite heavily and a few times as strong thunderstorms. But it was great to get away for a while and the scenery was beautiful.
I didn't take as many pics as I thought I would, mostly because no one wants to see pics of us sitting there reading a book while it poured down rain! But I did get a few.
Lena sleeping in the car on the way there. I cannot understand how she can sleep like that. Her head is almost resting on that plastic tub next to her.
The house we stayed at. It is the vacation home of the brother of the other chaperone on the trip, a fellow teacher at the high school. Three floors, five bedrooms, four bathrooms, jacuzzi tub, and two decks overlooking the lake. Jim, Lena, and I had the master suite (including jacuzzi tub) all to ourselves. Our room even had its own doors out to the deck.
The stairs leading down to the lake. There were 67 of them. We definitely got our workouts climbing those stairs several times a day. At the bottom is a boat dock.
The kids took turns jumping off the rope swing. Jim did it a couple of times too. I have a video of that; I'll post it later.
Jim and Lena hanging out on the dock. This was the closest Lena got to the water. We were going to take her swimming on Thursday, but it rained all day. [She never got to wear the adorable bathing suit I got for her :( ]
The kids going tubing. I was going to do it on Thursday, but again, it rained all day.
On Wednesday we drove across the border and visited a national forest in North Carolina that has this beautiful waterfall. It was really foggy, so my pictures didn't turn out that great. But it was really neat.
Jim and Lena in front of the waterfall. It started pouring down rain when we got there.
More stairs. There were 154 steps in between the different viewing platforms at the waterfall. And that was after a half-mile walk straight uphill.
Lena didn't seem to mind the rain. It was warm enough there that it wasn't a problem.
Soggy pigtails.
The girls. Left to right: Serline (pronounced like Celine), Ashley, Sabrina, and Heather.
Lena loved hanging out with the girls. She was especially fond of Ashley. I don't think she was bored for a single moment on our trip. She just loves having so many people around.
A view of the mountains. The fog really obscures the view, but take my word for it, it was beautiful!
Wednesday evening Jim, Lena, and I went to a nice restaurant in Seneca, SC. I took this while we were waiting for our table. Lena had shrimp for the first time there.
Jim with antlers.
Sleeping in the car on the way home. She liked to cuddle with this blanket or her orange hippo, Barnii.
Although we would have enjoyed at least some sun, we did have fun on our vacation. Our first vacation of the summer. I have about a week before I need to start packing for our next vacation, Wisconsin. We leave in two weeks!
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