My girl friends Courtney Hall and Joanna Jennings forced me to head to Charleston with them. Actually, they really did not. I volunteered for a chance to be without kids and husband for 48 hours. It was so relaxing and wonderful! We saw and did many things and it was a great adventure. Charleston is only a few hours from home so we piled in the car around 8pm and took off. Driving through the night Courtney and I sang disney songs the whole trip at the top of our lungs while Joanna attempt to sleep in the back seat.
We arrived late in the evening and required a few hours of sleep before bounding off for adventure the next day. Once we got to our room we showered and slept...hard apparently since Joanna claimed we BOTH snored.
At around 8am we woke up and those two went and got breakfast while I showered again. We hopped in the car and took off. Excited to see the city and walk around. We took a walk down rainbow row for a few hours before deciding that we wanted to take a wagon ride. And by the way, as cool as cobble stone streets sound, they are not fun to walk on (you may break and ankle) nor are they fun to drive on either (shakes the crap out of your car). All the homes are close the upper 10 to 12 million dollar range in the historical section and they are beautiful. If I win the lottery I am buying this address below!
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| My future address |
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| This is where a gigantic terrier came out of no where and scared the crap out of Joanna and I. |
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| One of the Million Dollar homes front door |
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| Cobblestone sucks |
Historically Charleston is an amazing place where the first shots were fired for the war between the states. (That would be how those southerners refer to the Civil War, as there was nothing civil about it). We rode the wagon around the city and learned many things that I have forgotten already, I guess I have to go back and do it again. The problem with the wagon ride is if you have never seen a horse from that angle and the many things that horses do biologically, well, its an adventure as well.
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| View from the parking spot downtown |
After that we decided it was time to eat. We ate a seafood joint called Hymen's. Why? I have no idea as I don't care for seafood. However my crab cake sandwich was AMAZING. Poor Joanna was disappointed in her meal though since it came late and it was old. We sat at a table that Metallica sat at before and also Michael Phelps (Gold medal olympic swimmer FYI).
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| Metallica |
After we ate we decided that it was time to find the Yorktown for a tour. It was closed by the time we got there so that would have to wait. It was a little chilly out but we wanted to see the area before the sun went down so we headed to the beach. At the beach there were big warning signs saying to stay out of the water and there was a huge fine for even dipping your toes. We decided that it was probably a good idea to stay out of the water. We walked the beach for awhile and took some awesome sunset pictures and then went back to the hotel.
We wanted to do a ghost hunt at the most haunted place in Charleston, the old jail, but it was totally booked for the evening. Instead we headed back into town for some walking tours of our own. Bored, we did a little geocaching. Courtney and Joanna fell in love with my little hobby and we found three during the night. On our way back we were telling each other scary stories since we did not get to do the ghost hunt and Joanna and I got the pants scared off of us because of some dude who was out for a walk in the dark alley.
We made it back to the hotel alive and well when we discovered that Joanna had lost her debit card. It was a terrible feeling to have lost something that important. She was able to cancel her card and Courtney covered her the rest of the trip but I know the feeling and it had to have been horrible for her.
The next day it was time to go home but not before we wasted some time at the Yorktown and Fort Sumter. I got to walk an aircraft carrier and be reminded of all the things I miss about the Navy. I got to tell my friends a little about what I did when I was in too. We then took a ferry ride over to the fort. That was fun and an adventure once again. Its funny how people are so ignorant sometimes. One lady actually believed that the Airforce was the only military that flew planes. I almost flipped out but Courtney saved that womens life.
There was one beach that Courtney had wanted to see about 30 minutes more south so we headed that direction before heading home. I have no idea why three full grown women would want to play in the ocean water knowing full well we did not have a change of clothes with us but we totally did. We got soaked! Crawling back into my car and taking half of the Atlantic ocean and beach with us we drove home. We promptly made plans to return next year.
