Life after Fripp Island, South Carolina

We arrived in Greer SC on Wednesday the 4th of September and spent some time helping Bill and Deb to get things ready to go to the beach.
Saturday morning we started out on our little road trip to Fripp Island SC to meet up with 4 other couples from Georgia. Stella & Tommy Barr, Manning & Sharon Moody, Joann and Ike Ikred, Ann Reynolds & Maston Griffin.    Bill and I had known the girls and Manning since we were in second grade and we had met their spouses before and love all of them dearly.   We try to get together at least once a year.
  We arrived at the island after a grocery trip to Wal Mart, which was a complete"hoot" within itself(four people trying to work from one grocery list) and started unloading the vehicle which was packed to the "gills". There was not a corner or crack to put another thing,
Now the good times start with Happy Hour and Memories.   I am sure the spouses were tired by the end of the visit , from all the old stories of elementary and high school but a GOOD TIME was had by all. 
We walked on the beach, the Atlantic is quite dirty, so no one really wanted to be in the water but there are some really nice pools in the area so we did have a good time there.   When you get six old ladies and six old men in a pool you have a MESS.
Of course we ate very well while there and if anyone went hungry it was their own fault. 
Everyone left on Wednesday morning except the four of us.  We decided to go to Hunting Island State Park and also the Lighthouse which Larry, Bill and I climbed.   Larry and I have been collecting lighthouses for many years and try to climb as many as we can.   This one had 167 steps to the top viewing area.  
Thursday we headed back to Greer and of course the job of unloading the car came next. We all were ready for some quiet time and so we retired early,
Bill and Larry are working on some projects around the house now and we will probably head back to Virginia the first part of the week and on to an ODC Campout on Friday. 
I forgot to tell you about our trip to Mt. Airy NC on the way down. We stopped and spent two nights at the Mayberry Campground and went into town to visit all the favorite spots of Andy and Barney from the Andy Griffith show. There is a museum, Floyds Barber Shop, The Snappy Lunch where we had lunch of a pork chop sandwich and a Drug Store with a soda fountain that we went into and had a banana split for dessert with the extra of the owner telling so stories of Andy, when he was growing up.   He was quite the historian.  Also we learned the  first Siamese twins lived in that area and the story of their lives is very interesting. In fact the campground is built on their property which has been passed down for generations.
There is a mountain in the area called Pilot Mountain which is also what Andy referred too in the shows, as the town of Mt. Pilot.