NEW HOME in SOUTH CAROLINA

I forgot to include the picture of our dinner out in the last post.  Gary reminded me, so thought I would include that now.  This was at Benjamin's Seafood buffet.  We sure ate our money's worth, but can't say that I was impressed with the food over any other buffet.  But we did not go away hungry, as you can tell!!

November 3rd now.  We did our morning cleaning here in the park as quickly as we could so as not to be in the way of the weekend campers.  The park is sure full this weekend.  Could be because the temperature is to be in the 70's!!  In spite of the nice temps, I am getting a cold.  It started with just a scratchy throat, but in the last hour my head has begun to get stuffy!!  Ugh.  I just hope that it does not last long.
We have been out driving around the country roads as well as the Interstates, so are getting familiar with the area.  We stayed right in Lexington at a campground in 2008 when we were first here, but now we are probably 40 miles west of that. 
On one of our trips out and about we saw a front yard with a bunch of birds, but could not decide what they are.  Can any of you tell us?

Here we are driving over to Dreher Island State Park in South Carolina, that we will call home for the month of November.  It is beautiful here in the fall.  Just before the weekend they went around with a tractor and blower to get all of the dry leaves and long pine needles off of the roadways and sites.  That was nice since the roads and sites in the park are pretty narrow, some only one lane/direction of traffic.  

Like many other parks there is a registration booth, but it is not being used since it is not peak season.

Instead you will stop in at the store/office to register.  This is the boat docking and marina area also.

Between the road and the lake in this picture, you can see tent pads.  So they are sure to have a level bed!!  Most of them sit around a fire and picnic table between that tent pad and the lake.  It is picturesque.

Notice the dropping off of the land on each side of the blacktop campers pads!!  Not much is level here!!

We even had our first guest, one of many who will visit.

The tents and canopies are sure more fancy compared to our tent camping days.  Plenty of stand up room!!

And this is home for us!!  Gary even got it in place on the first try.  I gave him kudos for that!!  Our workamping job in this park as "Host" is cleaning four of their main restroom/shower buildings.  One is here just behind our site.  We also have a golf cart to get to all of the others and we cut across through the woods for some of them.  The one farthest from us is down the road away and across the road connecting islands.

Our view from our front window is road traffic going away from us, without any camping sites across from us.  We can see ravine and lake through the trees.  Awesome!!

This is our neighboring site which is not in use this weekend.  

I thought you might like to see the terrain is not level!!

And you can see our narrow picnic table area.  But they do have fire rings for each of us as well.

We drove in to Newberry SC to get to the closest Walmart for my prescription.  That was thirty miles in the other direction.  We were not too happy to find out that my script was not ready unless I wanted to pay full price of $72.  So we had to make the trip again the next day to pay only $9.  But it did not break our hearts as it is a very attractive town and has many interesting things such as this Opera House.  So we will be going back to check some of the things out!!

On the way to Newberry there was another quaint little town called Prosperity which also was interesting.  It had several restaurants that I want to check out.  There I go thinking food again!!  All I can say is it is a good pass time!! 
So now that you can visualize our home setting, we will try to keep you up on our activities.  Today after finishing up our cleaning job, we went in to Lexington to the church that we attended last Sunday (which our friends attend) to check out their yard sale.  It was fun visiting with all of them.  We will make the trip back in tomorrow for church.  We were happy that the park manager did accommodate us by giving us Sunday off.  Our two days together will be Sunday and Monday which makes us very happy. 

We also spent some time in the office the other day chatting with, Ruth Hill, the gal working who is a pastor's wife.  She and her husband, Scott, have pastored in Presbyterian churches since 1992 but are now affiliated with Mission to the World since 2006.  God has placed a desire in their hearts to become full time missionaries.  They are soon to be moving to Cherokee, NC to serve as missionaries to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.  There is much need there so they are very excited about this move.  They are asking for prayer as they take on this new mission.  So we are counting on you to keep them in prayer as well.  Thank you for your support!!
Take care and stay tuned.