The Siblings

Last weekend all of Bob's siblings and their spouses came to Green Bay for a visit. It was wonderful to have them here. We visited and toured and ate food over and over for 4 days. It all went by in a flash. We toured a light house on the Lake Michigan side of Door County.

We visited the Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, which included climbing through a WWII submarine.

We visited the Experimental Aircraft Association Museum in Oshkosh, missing 10,000 Boy Scouts by one day. Whew!

And we just hung out at the house.

Celebrating 36 Years

To celebrate our 36th wedding anniversary, we decided to go to Charleston, South Carolina. There was no real reason other than it was somewhere we hadn't been before. We took the city tour by bus, which included historic homes in downtown as well as a plantation tour. The gardens were beautiful, and there was definitely some southern charm. We had plenty of good seafood and low country cooking. We visited every historic home we could find. Ft. Sumter was a highlight. We also toured the USS Yorktown at Patriot's Point. You could go in virtually every nook of the ship.

The bridge to Patriot's Point

If you need to make cookies for 10,000, here it is. Posted on the window of the kitchen quarters on the USS Yorktown.

Bob ready to shoot down the enemy.

The first shots fired at Fort Sumter that began the Civil War.

The remains of Ft. Sumter.

The Magnolia plantation.

On the piaza at the plantation.

On Battery Avenue in Charleston, South Carolina