Hello Uncle Walter!

Thursday, May 7th

We got up early and caught a flight

to

Columbia, South Carolina

Linda's Uncle Walter

(her mother's brother)

met us at the airport.  He and his

wife Barbara were

very gracious hosts and after 17 years

it was wonderful to see them again.

Their home is in a wooded area

surrounded by trees

We thought it was pretty funny that

everyone in the area

cover their flower beds with pine needles.

They buy bales for about $4 each.

In Bend we spent hours raking

them OUT

 of our flower beds and burning them!

 Before dinner Uncle Walter drove us

all around both

Columbia & Lexington

(where he lives)

among many other sites

we saw the....

State Capitol and....

the "double" dam at Murray Lake

After our "Tour" Uncle Walter & Barbara

treated us to dinner at....

FATZ  where we had a yummy

Chicken Pot Pie.

After dinner Barbara went back to

the house and

Steve & Linda together with

Uncle Walter

Went to the Columbia Temple.

When we finished our session

the temple was all lit up

and Beautiful!

We spent the night at Uncle Walter's

then left early Friday morning

for Trudi's via 

Columbia-Atlanta-Quad Cities Airports

It took us all day but we

finally made it to Davenport, Iowa