08 May 2015

Charleston, the first day

Back when we lived together we had Michael Dancen Jacks parties, read Harry Potter on the roof, ate ice cream with a spoon in each hand and learned who we really were.

The last time we were all together was over 7 years ago.  We’ve had relocations, jobs come and go, 8 kids, and when we get together we pretty much look and act the same as we did before all that. 

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We planned this trip for years, and we started it with a prayer, a short road trip to Charleston, and some pretty smash-bang barbeque Nachos from Home Team BBQ on Sullivan’s Island.

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We took a short walk to Sullivan’s beach and got excited about the local plant life.IMG_4482

We promptly took off our shoes…DSCN6108

…and like the good tourists that we are, asked someone to take our picture.  IMG_4483

We then proceeded to be really cool.lighthouse

We checked in to our Inn and proceeded to be really cool again:

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Then we were off around the city.  We found a large horse that wanted to eat my head, so Hannah fed it something else.  (Note:  It didn’t really eat my head.)horse

We found fantastically gorgeous alleyways.hug tight

And we found some fancy chocolates made by hand by a man named Christophe Paume.

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Then we went window shopping on King’s Street.

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We found this quote along the way and were really inspired.  I mean, Stephen R. Covey is an inspiring guy.

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That is to say, it inspired to indulge on the ice-cream we were all imagining in our faces.  Yes, true, we’ve had ice-cream in our history, but not in our Charleston history.IMG_4640

We sat under this tree and ate and chatted and it was great.IMG_4628

I’ll show you what we did tomorrow, tomorrow.

2 comments:

Amy Rose said...

I love this so so much. I keep trying to write a blog post about it, but I don't have the pictures or the words! Thanks for capturing it for me, friend. LOVE YOU. Can't wait to see the rest of the documentation.

Mimi Collett said...

Nice video! What a great first day! (And thank you for taking pictures.)