The Hard-to-get-a-degree's: TBT: Nana & Ganny's Visit

Our Throwback Thursday post is from July when Lottie was 4 months old. Nana (Nay-nay) & Ganny came to visit us at the end of July for a few days. We had a great time sharing Lottie and the beautiful upstate with them. They drove in Thursday morning, picked up Chris and Lottie, and met me in Greenville, so we could go to the zoo. Greenville has a little, but good zoo. Sadly, we arrived too late to feed the elephants, but we did have a great time checking out the rest of the animals and were highly entertained by the orangutans.

In the picture on the left, the front orangutan is drinking his pee as gross as that sounds. We watched him pee in the cup and then drink it. Sorry Darwin, but there are clearly a bjillion, if not infinite, steps between him and me.

Lottie enjoyed walking around and looking at everything.

However, halfway through the experience, she looked like this:

The next day we took Dana & Ganny to Chimney Rock, NC to see the mountains and go shopping. They enjoyed it a lot.

A local fruit stand along the way

Having ice cream in Chimney Rock

When we arrived back home, Nana gave Lottie a beautiful purple crocheted blanket. Lottie loves it—it is her cozy blankie.

The other blanket is the one Dana made Chris when he graduated high school.

The following day, we visited the Walnut Grove Plantation. It is a great example of an upstate plantation, which were very different from the Charleston or Lowcountry plantations. The history is very interesting—they lived a more normal late 1700s log cabin life-style. They actually had some reenactors with muskets. Chris really enjoyed talking with them about their guns.