It's Been A Cold Day's Night

For those of you who did not know, we were out of town last week. We left on Sunday and returned on Friday. I (Natalie) had a residency at Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina. I taught classes and set a piece of choreography on their students. It was a good week and nice to teach different students for a change of pace. Brian was able to take the week off to watch Ruth in the hotel. When we originally planned this trip, I was still pumping. But two weeks ago I stopped pumping. Ruth got six months of exculsive breast milk and one month of supplemental but now I am done. It was a little sad but I do have more time!!



Hartsville doesn't have a whole lot to do but they do have this old mom and pop restaurant called Ruth's Drive In. It is next to the old high school. I found it on the chamber's webpage before we went and was determined to eat there but everyone we asked made a face. I told Brian we were going anyway. We had a snack there of sweet tea and the best cake I have had in awhile. It was homemade and tasted like our grandmothers used to make. We were there around 3:00PM in the afternoon so the owner had time to talk. The only other customer was a young man a few years younger than us who had gone to school (then it was an elementary school) next door and had spent every afternoon doing his homework in one of the booths while he waited for his mom to pick him up. He lives out of town now but was back for some "home cookin'." Let me tell you, there food was good but the kind that will give you a heart attack. The restaurant has been around since 1945 but if Obama is elected, then the restaurant will probably be forced out of business due to his un-American "re-distribution of wealth." program. Anyway, the restaurant was started by the current owner's grandmother (Ruth) and was then run by her mother and father (the father was a Virginia native and there were pictures of him in the restaurant wearing a Virginia Tech hat). I bought a t-shirt but they didn't have any in children's sizes.

Another thing we did was visit these wonderful gardens that are open to the public. I will attach pictures of our hike next. We took Ruth in the stroller down steps and over a fallen tree in the path. It was a really beautiful park with walking trails next to a creek.

To get to the title of this post, when we returned, it had turned cold here in Georgia. It had been cold in South Carolina as well and Ruth got to try out some of her winter clothes. I tried to turn the heat on in our house upon our return on Friday afternoon but we learned shortly thereafter that our heater was broken. Ruth had to sleep with us that night because the house was 59 degrees before Brian turned on the fireplace. We had to buy a new system. A big chuck of change of was spent on Saturday to get the house warm again and to get our bed back sans baby.

Sleep was good last night. Even though the Razorbacks lost to dang Ole Miss. The only game I wanted to win this year was to beat traitor Houston Nutt. The season might as well be over now.