Gameday Cruising

Friday night Andrew played at the 356 downtown with the Hoodoo Hounds. I watched the early 8:00pm show and met up with Benny and Renee. We stayed until around 10:00pm and they drove me home. Andrew kept playing until 1:30am and didn't get home until 3:30pm - it takes about 1 hour just to take apart his drums. He loves the sound of his new drums and is very thrilled that one of his childhood dreams has come true, to play drums in a rock band in front of an audience!
Saturday I had a craving for egg rolls and so we went to Bloom for the ingredients and cooked about 20 of them for lunch. They turned out great - we hadn't made home made egg rolls since we lived in Texas. The kickoff for Clemson football's season opener against Florida Atlantic was at 3:30pm, so we took the boat out by the stadium after filling up with 10 gallons of gas at the Clemson dock. Driving over to the stadium we could see lots of docks and boats on dry land. There were lots of boats out with us listening to the game on the radio and it was great to see the stadium filled with orange. We could hear the crowd roaring and the cannon firing after each touchdown. By halftime it was clear that Clemson would win this one so we went off for a cruise (this is a long download so be patient). We went up the north arm of the lake that leads to the dam at lake Keowee, but the water started to get shallow so we turned around before grounding out. Along the way we saw some wild turkeys feeding in the grasses by the lake edge. We also lost a fender somewhere because we forgot to bring them in before cruising around. We ended the day with a nice sunset in our little part of the lake. Back at the house, we watched the dvd 'A View From the Top' - it was a nice comedy about flight attendants and the stereotypes, etc.Today we went grocery shopping and I made some banana, raisin, walnut and chocolate chip muffins. Then we went to Walmart and bought a new fender and a new boat cover since the current boat cover has ripped again - it has been repaired too many times and its fabric is shot. So we worked on the boat a little and then relaxed the rest of the day away. Andrew did some programming and I surfed the web and did some laundry. Tonight's dinner was an irish stew made with red wine, lots of fresh vegetables and some chickpeas for protein.