Gma & Gpa Mason Visit

Gma Char and Gpa Jack arrived on Friday at 3 pm. After a quick tour of the house with Aaron, Gpa and Aaron went to the Happy Butcher to pick up some steaks for dinner. We then cooked red-skinned mashed potatoes (which Gpa was happy to find were mashed by hand) with asparagus. The rest of the night we just visited and caught up with each other. And...ate some of the sweets that Gma brought...On Saturday we enjoyed a nice breakfast of egg bake and banana bread before heading out to the Congaree Bluegrass Festival in Cayce, SC. There Gma and Gpa tasted their first boiled peanuts. As you can see they didn't think they were half bad...well, Aaron and I certainly helped. It was a beautiful day! After that we headed to Swansea to visit Aaron's school. Gma enjoyed seeing where Aaron works. We then headed home to catch some football.

We visited the famed Shealy's for a dinner of fried chicken, pork rinds, green beans, corn, rice and hash, and a huge dessert bar. We left stuffed!

Now we are back at the house. Gma and I worked a little bit outside only to come back in to see Gpa and Aaron relaxing (a.k.a. sleeping). Now we are watching more football games and hoping that Aaron's bet this weekend will pay off.

Tomorrow we are headed to Cafe Strudel for brunch and then maybe downtown to see the sites. We'll post another update with more pictures tomorrow.