A Little of This, A Little of That

Hey guys! I am super excited because today is my Friday! Tomorrow bright and early, David, Moxley, and I are heading up to South Carolina to Lake Hartwell.

Lake Hartwell, South Carolina
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We are meeting his entire family up there for a little family vacation. I am super excited to go and explore the area and to spend some quality time with his sweet family. I just need to go home tonight and get my bags packed after my Sunday School party. Guess I have a busy evening ahead of me. But this time tomorrow, we will be on the road for a nice weekend getaway. We also have another lake trip planned in July, but this one is closer. We will be heading up to Lake Eufaula in Alabama with a group of friends for a long weekend. So, forget the beach. We will be laking it this summer!

Lake Eufaula, Alabama
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I stopped by the bookstore yesterday to grab a book or two for the trip this weekend, since we have a nice 6 hour drive in front of us tomorrow. Don't get me wrong- I love a good chick-lit book- but I really love historical and/or memoir type books. So I picked up this book, Two Rings:

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I started it yesterday when I got home and I am almost finished. This story is heartbreaking and poignant. It is a story about Millie who was born in Radom, Poland and her experiences during WWII and the Holocaust. Every time I read a Survivors memoir, I still can't believe that people actually lived through those atrocities. It just seems unbelievable at times that humans could be so cruel to other humans. It's hard to grasp your mind around.

The other book I picked up was Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. I know I'm really late to the party on this one. I can't believe I haven't read it yet. In my defense, I have read War and Peace but that's only because I had to read it in college. Ha! But it is on my list of Classical "must reads" and I will hopefully get it crossed off my list this weekend. Plus, the movie comes out soon, so that is also a plus!

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In other great books becoming movies- I am excited that one of my favorites, The Great Gatsby will be coming out around Christmas. I.Cannot.Wait!!

Moving on.....

Thought I would share a few pictures from this past weekend that I didn't earlier in the week. Just mainly pictures of the massive garden that David's father grew. It is awesome. Although this visit, he had already torn up all his squash and zucchini vines, so it looked a little nicer in there this weekend.

His dad probably had at least 10 different varieties of tomatoes. I was extremely jealous. I made David stand beside the tomato plants, to give some scale on how tall they actually were!

Eggplant

Carrots

Some weird kind of eggplant

Bell peppers

Corn!

Oscar enjoyed checking out the garden for a brief second, then he wanted back in the car in the A/C! Go figure!

Nothing like some self photography :-P

When we got down to the swamp, I turned my camera back on the boyfriend for yet another photo shoot. He refused to cooperate.

He didn't want to get near the ground because "it was wet" or so he claims. I finally got him to halfway cooperate!

Beautiful, right? Hee, hee! A few more shots and I called it a wrap. I wasn't even feeling it. Maybe because I had left my tripod at home...

Poor David. He's a sport, is all I can say. Well, folks. That wraps it up for me today. I won't be posting my Friday Faves tomorrow, unless I find time to do it today. If not, hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Peace out!