Dad's 60th birthday is tomorrow, and last weekend, the girls and I celebrated with him. We decided to take a Saturday and drive him around down memory lane. We started out in Ninety Six, SC where we saw Granny Berry's home and the Beasley's home. He showed us his grandfather's grocery store locations and where Nonny and Granddaddy went to High School. We also got to see the church they grew up in. I can't remember spending much time there before, so I really enjoyed the history lesson!
From there, we headed towards Anderson and came across the intersection where a novice driver ran into dad and flipped his VW bug into a field. We saw the old convenient store where they called the police. Then we went to New Silver Brook Cemetery, where we met up with Faith, to see Nonny and Granddaddy's grave. That was a sweet time of thinking about sweet Nonny. We took this picture while we were there.
Then, it was lunchtime, so we drove over to Little Pigs to get our bellies full. Dad laughed about when he and mom first got married, they would stop by little pigs to eat on their way to Non's house. Dad would order a regular BBQ sandwich with fries, and a jumbo BBQ sandwich and eat it all on the road.
Our next stops were Granddaddy's old church, the parsonage, LaFrance Elementary and Pendleton High School, and an old mill house that mom and dad moved into when they were newly married.
We took a pitstop at Non's house and took this picture in the front yard. Lauren and Kristen smelled the laundry room and we were back on the road.
From there, we drove to Clemson, stopping at The Athletic Dept for Lauren and dad to make some Clemson purchases (a straw hat, a baseball hat, a wallet, a nurse badge, some t shirts, etc). Dad took over the driving at this point, pulled through Starbucks (for mom) and then onto the Clemson campus to find the ice creamery. We got back on the road towards Augusta after splurging on peach and cookies and cream ice cream...yummy.
Our last pitstop was at Zaxby's for some tater chips and crushed ice, and then home.
We had a BLAST celebrating dad's life. Lauren, Kristen, and I are blessed to call him dad.
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