South Carolina

We arived into South Carolina on the amtrack at 5.00am absolutely wrecked from the train ride of coarse emer managed to get some sleep even tho she was frozen from the Ac on the train.. we forgot to bring a blanket! i was awake the hole time. We were met at the station by my auntie lil and the cousins Kirby, Jamie and ross it was so great to see them, were very thankful for them for collecting us.

Spending time with the family was the biggest highlight of our trip so far, not just the comfort of the house which was beautiful, or the ease of relaxing on the sun deck with a few drinks or even the ample amount of mouth watering food which was prepared for us every night. it was just spending time getting to know each other again.

We spent a week with my American family which went to fast, that is the only regret we have. we got to go to BMW spartanburg which was fully booked out for the next six months, thanks Caroline you were so wonderful for pulling a few favours. Spartanburg BMW factory was absolutely unreal we got to see the cars start as pieces in a box to completion, every X3,X5 & X6 tat is made in the world is produced here so cool.

Lil and ted made sure there was lots of things for us to do, we couldn't have asked for a better time, we went to see Transformers 3 in the imax theatre there was 10 of us, "drinks" were smuggled in, brilliant !! we were introduced to ihop, emers favourite place to eat, International house of PANCAKES ('if it has it in the title they cant be bad'!). we were stuffed.

Lil and ted gave us full use of the cars which was so good of them, it was great to drive again i was having withdrawal symptoms. Kirby introduced us to her boyfriend Taylor, sound out and great fun a bit of a messer like me which annoyed Kirby, imagine two of me !!!!!! We also met Aj, gas character had a few great laughs.

Ted & lil drove us and the kids up to the lake for the day it was so beautiful up there, the heat was causing us to melt, literally.  There was so much going on there with people on jet skies, speed boats and BBQ'S. We had all the usualy supplies to last a few hours and when it was late headed home. Awsome day

We spend fourth of July there aswell it was great fun there was a big get together with lil and teds friends which were lovely at the house with BBQ and lots of drink afterwards we went to the local golf coarse for planned events the fire work show was hugh.

Then we got to use the fireworks which emer and i bought, well worth the dollars they were all mortors, big and noisey, there must have been 50 different types took a while to set them all off. Threw a few into the drain massive explosion echoing throughout the neighbourhood - not our fault - cohersed by ted!!

On Wednesday we left for memphis ...