South Carolina.

Mike's Sister had recently moved to Sth Carolina to teach. The national club cross country champs where being held in North Carolina, an hour from Michelles place, so Mike decided he would give the cross country a go again, and we would stay with Michelle and check out the area.

Unfortunately Mike was unable to compete at the champs, but we were all booked and wanted to visit his sister so we went down.

The flight to South Carolina should have been about 3hrs, with a stop over in Philadelphia. So we got a ride to the airport for our midmorning flight to sit and wait for some time before our plane came in. Then we got to Philly ran through the airport to find they had closed the gates 10min early - the only flight we would have traveled on that left early! because our flight had been delayed they had moved our tickets to the next flight in case we didn't make it. Or as it looks to us, so they don't have to hold the connecting flight for us to get there. So now the trip is not off to a good start and we have to wait 3hrs for the next flight. Of course this one doesn't leave on time either - why would they!

Eventually we made it to North Carolina, got our rental car and drove an hr south to Michelle in our sweet little cube

Finally we arrived at Michelles place. The next day I needed to get a run in, so Michelle knew a few parks so we went and checked one of them out. Pics below of the State park we went to, which had a nice lake and and few trails around the lake. For dinner we had to have some southern food so tried Bojangles - Southern fried chicken - delicious.

While in South Carolina we visited the class that Michelle teaches and the half a dozen kids she looks after.

We Made our way up North on Saturday to Watch Mikes team run at the Club champs in North Carolina. It was a beautiful day and lots good quality races to watch. I did my run over the course once the races were done. One of the guys on the team had Family who the team was staying with so we went round there for so quality home cook Southern food! it was amazing Good Fried food! I would have liked to checked North Carolina more, but limited time.

Sunday Michelle took us into the town of where Columbia, which is the capital of South Carolina. We checked out the state building With all the christmas stuff set up for the season
In Columbia the football team is the one of the biggest games you can go to, so we checked out that stadium - The Stadium of the Gamecocks.

Monday Mike and I headed back up North for our trip back home to Long Island. just hoping that our day of travel was not going to be as long as on the way there.