A Classy Long Weekend (Part 2)

June 26th - June 29th

Friday morning we took our time getting up and out. Audrey, Jed & I headed out to The Bagel Shop to grab some breakfast for the rest of the weekend. On our way back we stopped at a bake shop that was just around the corner for our house. This place had amazing cupcakes & cookies that we decided to get to pack in our lunches and for dessert that night. The place was called Sugar and it was GREAT!

Once we finished breakfast and packed our lunches, we headed out to check out Boone Hall Plantation. I would HIGHLY recommend this plantation. It was great. There was so much to check out. We started at the butterfly pavilion.

 After the butterfly pavilion we headed over to the highlight of Boone Hall Plantation, the Gullah Theater. By far the best thing on the plantation. It was a great way to tell the story of what life was like working on the plantation.

Our next stop was the tour of the main home on the plantation. They allowed us to walk through the bottom floor and spent time telling us about life in the main house. This home is still in use today. The current owners come and vacation and work there a few times a year and live on the second floor of the main house. It was neat to see that it was still in use.

Our next stop was the Plantation Coach Tour, we hoped on a little opened air bus and they drove us around the plantation showing us crops, old movie sets and telling us many stories about Charleston, the plantation and even the Civil War. It was a surprise to see how they are continuing to use so much of the property for so many different things.

Once the tour ended we quickly made our way to the dock area. Now a days this area that is right on the water is used for parties, celebrations and weddings. It is quite a destination area, this is the very place that Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds got married not too long ago.

Before we left the plantation, we spent some time walking around the flower gardens and trying to capture the beauty of the Live Oaks that lined the drive way.

We really enjoyed Boone Hall Plantation even if we wanted to melt from the heat.

As we left Boone Hall, we made a quick stop at the local Farmers Market that the plantation sells a lot of there produce for some refreshing ice cream before heading down to the water front.

It had been raining on and off the entire time we have been is Charleston so we didn't come down to the beach with the intention of swimming but we were hot and too close to the beach to not stop and check it out.

We made it back to our place, got cleaned up and headed off to dinner & ended our evening at D'Allesandro's Pizza. It was a fun hole in the wall pizza place. We definitely felt like locals eating here.