B'More Chai: Southern Hospitality

Southern Hospitality

This past weekend we drove our way down to visit our good friends the Chappell's and their newest addition Miss Saylie in Greenville, South Carolina! I must say the road trip down to the South was very interesting...upon crossing the state border into North Carolina we started seeing huge billboards for guns and fireworks...(fireworks were also being sold at a gas station - if I remember correctly the ad said "Fuel and Fireworks" - always a good combination...).

Chris and Jenny were amazing hosts, and Saylie was perfect entertainment. Bryan got to change some diapers - which he strangely enjoyed ( lets see how he feels after a couple of kids...) and I got to snuggle with the baby on the couch while we watched movies!

After resting for the day we headed out to the BMW Spartanburg Plant (the headquarters of BMW in the United States) for a tour of the factory - courtesy of Chris who currently works there. Unfortunately we couldn't take pictures of the amazing machinery inside the miles of factory space (BMW is a little secretive about their new plans...also they had some cool prototypes hanging around that they probably didn't want on blast on the internet).

Later we headed into downtown Greenville- which was really charming and totally reminded me of downtown Davis and the Arboretum! We enjoyed pigging out at dinner and also on some gelato afterward... (Hazelnut Gelato is MONEY!)

A special thanks again to the Chappell's for hosting us again, they are wonderful friends and we love'em so much!!

I guess that's ends our summer trips for now, we really don't have anything big planned until our CA trip in July/Aug - kind of a bummer since we love traveling so much.

We do have tons of summer projects going on right now...we are planning on installing a glass mosaic back-splash in the kitchen - I will post pics when its done! And hopefully after that we plan on tackling bamboo flooring... wish us luck! Hope everyone is enjoying the summer and warmer weather so far!