We slept in yesterday and decided to not spend the day driving for five hours to tour the Biltmore Estate. Instead, we revisited the McLain Estate in Winston-Salem. We unleashed the kids in Uncle Bruce's backyard. We were more than happy to spend the day lounging around in the pool. I felt bad for Uncle Bruce because by the end of the morning, it seemed like he had pulled every pool float, ball, diving ring, and lounge chair cushion out of storage. What he didn't know was that the kids would have been happy with much less. As fast as he could bring out more toys for them to play with, they would add it to their ever-growing flotilla. Uncle Bruce and Jll ran to the store to buy grillables for lunch and I did my best to ensure that the kids didn't drown each other in the process. We had a nice lunch on the patio and the kids were soon back to the pool. As the afternoon wore on, Uncle Bruce got his vengeance on Jll and me for the pool toy mess in his backyard by announcing to the kids that for dinner he had cherry pie and ice cream. He was not joking. We cleaned up the yard, and headed out to Old Salem. Though everything was closed as it was Monday, it was interesting to see the Moravian settlement and buildings. We said our goodbyes to Uncle Bruce and headed back to the RV.
Today was relatively uneventful as we packed up our belongings and left North Carolina in the rear view mirror. We pulled in to Charleston at about dinner time and ran out to do some quick shopping. A downpour of rain squelched our plans to grill dinner, and we searched out the best barbeque we could find using the interwebs. We ended up at Fiery Ron's Home Team BBQ. Jll left unimpressed by the brisket and the kids and I polished off a rack of ribs in nothing flat. We got back to the RV, got everyone cleaned up and tucked in for the night.
- Dave
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