NEWBERRY OPERA HOUSE IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Deer sightings is a daily occurrence at Dreher Island State Park, usually early morning or at dusk.  By time we get the camera out most of them have scampered off but we have seen as many as ten at one time!!  It makes us wonder where they are during the day.  But driving through the park can be a challenge!!

 Lake Murray where Dreher Island SP is located is really a large lake.  We have not been all the way around it as the shoreline is very irregular, but hope to do more excursions of that nature before leaving the area.  The huge dam at one end near Lexington is awesome so need to take pictures there as well.  I promise we will have more to show you. 

This small boat marina is just at the entrance of the island where our park is.  The lake can have quite a bit of activity going on the weekend, but as you can see during the week it is pretty quiet.

Donna and Ray we wish you were here with both of your boats!!  Plenty of opportunity to spend hours on the lake and many miles of lake!! 

This week we went back to Newberry SC on Thursday to the Newberry Opera House to see The Hit Men perform with early 60's music.  It was an awesome show and sure brought back memories!! 

The Opera House itself is beautiful!!  They keep it in amazing condition and it is used quite often and has been for years. 

After leaving the lobby, we went to second floor to find our seats.  It was fun watching the people come in.  Since it was matinee time, the crowd seemed to be more seniors.  Guess we are fitting in that category more often than not!!

The Hit Men sang many of the songs from the Four Seasons and Frankie Valli and the Shondels time period.  Of course, that would not be surprising since three of them were with the original Four Seasons. 

One played base guitar, one was on keyboard behind the base player, while the third was on drums.  Can you tell they were from that era?

After the show, we realized that ninety minutes is not very long when you are enjoying what you are hearing!!  So needless to say, we enjoyed the show very much.

When we left the matinee we decided to walk the streets looking for a place for dinner.  We found the town to be very interesting and it had several antique shops that we would like to go back to visit.  It seemed the streets rolled up at 5 pm, so we will have to go earlier the next time.

Many very neat buildings!  

We opted for The Flying Pie and found it's specialty to be pizza.  It did have some delicious sandwiches as well. 

So much to see and do for such a small town, that we will go back!!

On our way back home, when entering the park, we stopped to talk with Park Ranger Kealie.  She is so nice and friendly!  Ben, she is the gal that we told you reminded us of Holly from Hawley! 

Last weekend was the church yard sale and we stopped in there to visit.  Can't buy much as there is no room to store more!!  But it was good to get re-acquainted with old friends!!  Pastor Jack was even black-mailed into putting on a blonde wig!!  



Sandy and I made plans to get together to scrapbook also. We are already about half way through the month here in SC, so we must get at it if we plan to get anything accomplished. Hopefully this week, Sandy. Those Thrift shops are waiting for us as well.  Hopefully, Gary will find something special for him to do as well.  It would be painful if he had to be bored tagging along with us!!

Take care and we hope to show you more from here in South Carolina.