Spring Break Lake Keowee Outing

John's bud James invited us to go with them on their first boating excursion of the year.
Captain Andy piloted the vessel out into the lake. Admiral Grandpa Don looked on.

Second Mate John sized up the armament while we cruised.

First Mate Andy was in action, as usual.

Our destination was a small beach on one of the many islands in Lake Keowee. Grammy Chris led the landing party ashore.

Swimming commenced, in short periods. The water was cold!

This was not digging for gold or treasure... it was constructing a mud factory.

Voila! The sand was coarse, but beautifully sparkly due to the flecks of iron pyrite in it. It made a passable grade of mud.

Easter Breakfast

First up on the menu: Overnight French Toast (made with thick-sliced homemade bread).

Next: Scottish Eggs. (Look scary, taste wonderful!)

And bacon (thick-sliced).

Three courses... with champagne! Yum!

Christopher discovered the sound of simulated coconut shells over your ears. More interesting than breakfast, for a small boy!

Easter Egg Hunting In Clemson

Easter Eve was spent at the Fieldstone Ranch Blacksmith cabin. The theme was 'camping in', with continuous screenings of "Cars".

Easter Morning found a cheery decoration on the front door when we arrived.

Egg hunting commenced soon thereafter. Mommy was on the spot with her nifty new camera!

Christopher was more interested in the egg contents than in finding them.

Victory!

John filled his quota very quickly. The spiffy Easter egg truck basketss were from Mommy and Daddy.

Egg tricks!

Yum!

Daddy tracked the search, to be sure all eggs were accounted for.

Next up: Breakfast!

Easter Eggs In Clemson

Preparations (boy-style) for Easter egg hunting went well. John did an excellent job of dying the egg shells, after the egg goo was blown out of them.

He did some creative designs, including the wax-crayon-to-make-writing trick.

Of course, there remained the question "what to do with the egg goo?"
Easy answer, for boys: dip your fingers in it and dribble it around on things! What else??

Spring Break In Clemson - Thespian Tony

This semester, in addition to doing the lighting design for the student play, Tony is playing a part! Because we are well connected, we got to watch the first full run-through rehearsal.

The play is "Proof" by David Auburn. It won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.


Here are a couple of scenes, featuring Tony as the dead father of a young female mathematics genius.

The play was Really Good, and all the actors were fantastic - especially Tony.

Spring Break In Clemson - Christopher Being Christopher

Spring Break In Clemson - Around the Neighborhood

We abandoned the horse farm, and moved into Clemson. Keats was on guard duty, as alert as ever.

The neighborhood boys were out riding the local slopes.

Later, we stopped by the local yogurtery (3 Spoons Frozen Yogurt) for a snack with John and best buds James and Andy.

Then to the park, for some hopscotch.

Christopher has his own style of sliding.

Next snack was at Krispy Kreme in Walmart. We had to wait a while for our croissant sandwich.

Spring Break In Clemson - Fieldstone B & B

It looked great on the web site...

This is the main house. There are three or so guest rooms there.

We chose the Blacksmith Cottage.

Does this remind you of The Grapes of Wrath?

Here's Ma, enjoying the surroundings.

John made friends with the Farm Cat.

Idyllic Scenery.

Romantic horse farm.

Llamas and Longhorns

These popped up along the road on my way to Garland. I couldn't resist. They were all very sociable - the teenage longhorn ate some grass from my hand. I decided not to get that close to the llamas...

Pilot In Command

Ada likes for Mark to "fly" her around the room. She is learning to grasp and hold fingers.
Here, it appears she is operating the throttle and joystick of her "airplane"!