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.

A Classy Long Weekend (Part One)

June 26th - June 29th

This weekend Jed and I headed down to Charleston, SC. We met up with Eric and Audrey. We were very hopeful that David & Amy could make the trip too but unfortunately, they weren't able to make it.We all met at our super posh place Rutledge Avenue Inn before heading across the street for dinner and catching up at Fuel. We had a great night of catching up and just hanging out.

On Thursday morning, we started our day off the right way. We walked across the street to Hominy Grill for a big breakfast.

After our breakfast, we decided to go wander the street of Charleston. Our first stop was the Nathaniel Russell House Museum.

We had heard great things about this place but we definitely hit it on a bad day. It was a pretty bad tour. The only thing this house had going for it was the elliptical spiral staircase. Our tour guide was a pretty big turn off for both the house and the city. It was not a good first impression at all.

After a disappointing house tour, we decided to skip any other tours and explore on our own. We were much more successful with that. On our way down to the Battery, we found Rainbow Row, and the City Market.

It was super hot outside and started to look like rain so we decided to head to lunch and see what happened with the weather. Kilby recommended Poogan's Porch. This place was FANTASTIC! Oh my gosh! We sat, laughed and ate while the rain storm passed over. By the time we were done, the rain had stopped and it was a little cooler outside so we continued to explore this city.

After a full day of walking and sweating around the city, we decided to venture out to Sullivan's Island for dinner at Home Team BBQ. It was no Poogan's Porch, but it was good. There was a ton of night life in the area but after a while we decided to just grab a movie, Mental, from Red Box and head back to our way nice house for the weekend. (Side note, if you want the movie, be sure to turn on the subtitles, it is a lot easier to understand.) Eric, Audrey, Jed and I have a long history of watching bad movies together. None of them are on purpose, it just always happens that way. And this time wasn't any different. It was a unique movie but we all decided it might be the best of the weird, bad movies we have seen together.

After the movie, it was time to call it a night, we had plenty more to explore the next few days and it was time to get some rest.

A Tale of Two Trips

June 21st - 23rd

This weekend was the annual Green Street Reunion. We decided to try a new campground this year so most of the gang headed down to Lake Norman State Park in North Carolina. We had a great time catching up, laughing, playing with fire and just spending time together.

On Saturday, we all headed down to the beach area of Lake Norman and spent some time swimming and playing in the sand.

Unfortunately not everyone was able to make it this year. Kilby had recently taken a job in Denver, CO and that weekend he was driving his car and his dog across country. Johanna didn't fly out until Monday so she came for a few hours for all of us to say our last good byes.

Thankfully, Jed and Joel were able to make the cross country trip with Kilby and Sydney so he didn't have to do it alone. After hearing all of there stories when they got back, I think they had a fantastic time with stops at LJS (Long John Silvers) (of, course), Chicago for Chicago Dogs & Garrett's popcorn, Iowa for Zombie Burger (which ended up being closed!), watching World War Z and seeing one of Jed's friends, Lauren, a drive through the night because no one would take Sydney, a hail storm, lightning storm, hitting a bird & raccoon (on accident, of course) and a quick visit with Stephanie in Denver.

 It was quite a jam packed and fun weekend!