Sister Act: Fun in Greenvile

Spent a good part of last week in Greenville for the Carolina Recycling Association conference! Here are a few random shots for your blog enjoyment.

I got to spend a lot of time with my friend Carolyn from Dorchester County. She is their award-winning Recycling Coordinator, and aside from being a great friend and fun person, she totally inspires me. She's always doing something creative and wonderful and getting awards for it. But mostly, she is making a BIG difference doing what she does.

This is Carolyn winning ANOTHER award at the conference. Way to go, Carolyn!

This is Carolyn out and about with the giraffes at a cool store called Go Fish.

Carolyn and I chatting up a little Italian guy on Main Street, after a few cocktails - ha ha!

Whoa! Carolyn was THIRSTY! This was some display at the exhibit hall. The exhibitor wanted me to send her the picture so she could send it to some magazine. I have to give Carolyn's permission first, especially since her eyes are closed...

Greenville is a very dog-friendly city! There were water bowls up and down Main Street. These were three dogs we met during our Thursday evening hunt for George Clooney, who was in town making a movie. The white dog is actually a poodle-German Shepherd mix, and he was PRECIOUS!

Can you tell what this is? It's blurry, but it's a fish head! We went to a great restaurant called Sassafras Bistro, and Jackie from Berkeley County ordered some kind of fancy fish dish. And it came with the head attached. I know we are small town girls, and we acted like we were used to that kinda stuff, but it really freaked us out. Hence the picture!

I don't know why I took this - I just like the retro graphics really!

Jackie wanted to get a picture of this funky public art, so of course I had to mess up the picture by jumping in it! I almost knocked it over. Niiiiiiiice!

We went to the Restaurant O, a known George Clooney's hangout. Outside the lounge, we were shocked to see Jackie playing the piano beautifully. That's until we noticed the cords coming from it. It was a player piano. Good one, Jackie.

Have you seen these R2D2 mailboxes? Until last week, I'd only seen them on TV. I still don't quite understand why the post office feels the need to do such, but thought it was cool.

This is blurry, but Leslie from York County and her fireman husband Matt who bought me a trash to treasure art piece from the CRA auction. The center of the flower is a Starbucks cap. I'll get and post a better picture of it later.

This is Summer, the most precocious and precious recycler EVER! She is holding two pair of my pop tab earrings that I gave her for being so helpful at the conference.