Anniversary Trip: Day Two

In the morning we walked down along to harbor to the south carolina aquarium. it turns out i left my media card at the hotel! so travis, being the darling husband that he is, went back and got it for me. i sat and looked out at the harbor and saw a dolphin! it was amazing!
i always like it when they have a flounder exhibit. we could only find four out of the five.
these white turtles were really neat too. you could see all the patterns on their shells.
oh man! the skunks were SO CUTE! i spent forever trying to get a good picture but it never worked. i wanted to cuddle one! and the best part is they were kind of smelly so everyone was avoiding them.
So the aquarium was just ok. Nothing that exciting unless you count skunks..

afterwards we walked around looking for a place to eat lunch. first we tried to go to Jestine's, another place from Road Food. But of course it was closed. so we ended up at the next place on my list, Toast.

it was really good. i even liked the grits, and i usually don't. the peach cobbler was very delicious too.
i thought this was real. because i'm a dork. this is an old market. the top floor is a civil war museum. the bottom, sadly, is mostly stupid flea market type stuff.

we walked around in the rain and looked in a few of the awesome old graveyards. travis and i love them. we're talking about planing a trip to the northeast to see some of the really old graveyards there.
so many beautiful old stones. after that we walked back to our hotel to change for dinner.

we were finally able to do some letter boxing on the way to dinner since it stopped raining. travis really loved these magnetic boxes.

we ate dinner at hyman's. it's really touristy, but it was in our food book so we had high hopes. there was about a 45 minute wait and we got delicious hush puppies while we waited.

we ate boiled peanuts for the first time. it was like a really slimy bean. sitting in warm brown water. so gross.the food was just ok. it was pretty disappointing actually because we had picked this as our nice dinner out.

we walked down to the pier and watched a boat leave port. it was so fun for some reason! we sat out there for probably an hour. we got back to our room about midnight and went to bed so we could leave early in the morning.

Anniversary Trip: Day One

we are back from our trip! by the end of the seven days we were really ready to come home but it was a great trip! it will probably take a little while for me to post it all, but here is the first day...

we drove from nashville to charleston...9 hours!
we left at 5 am! i can't believe we actually got up and out the door. it was still dark.

we stopped and searched for a letterbox, but couldn't find it. i think it was gone. but it was in a nice park...

travis was really excited about our rental car.

cute dog in the back of a truck.

the drive through the smokey mountains was nice. and the tunnels are fun. but there is this seemingly endless stretch that is all twisty and there are not exits for a long time, and our tank was on empty so we were freaking out just a little. but we made it.
we bought this book "road food" by a couple that travels around the us and writes about good restaurants. so we made a list of places to check out on our trip. we tried to check out the beacon drive in, but it was closed! of course. this happened to us a lot on our trip.
we stopped a few times for letterboxes.

here is a picture of our cute room! i didn't get a picture of the outside of the hotel for some reason. it was all adorable and ivy covered.

we stayed in a place called the anchorage inn.

the hotel was right on the harbor and we didn't really have to drive at all the whole time we were there.

we went out on the harbor and looked at the ocean. of course it started raining as soon as we got out there. we watched that cruise ship for a long time hoping it would leave the port, but it didn't. bummer.

we drove across the bridge. apparently it is the longest suspension bridge in the united states.

we walked to a touristy irish pub for dinner. it was really good though. travis had crab fritters and i had fried flounder. which is pretty much all i ate while we were there. i LOVE flounder.

after dinner we walked around town and looked at the beautiful architecture.


we were very excited to see all the beautiful old graveyards. they were locked up for the night so we had to come back tomorrow.

we went to waterfront park to see that pineapple fountain.

we sat on a swing on the pier for a long time and watched the sun go down. it was really nice.