Day Trip: Beaufort, SC

As I mentioned earlier this week, we took a day trip down to Beaufort, South Carolina when we were in Charleston.  A blogger I have followed for several years is originally from there, moved back for a brief time, and speaks very highly of it.  It had been on my list of possibilities for our drive between Savannah and Charleston during our Summer 2014 vacation but it didn't make the cut.  This family vacation, we decided it would be a nice little day trip to drive down and visit the historic city.  We made it to Beaufort in the early afternoon.  After parking on Bay Street, we walked around just a bit before stopping in at Common Ground Coffeehouse to grab some lunch.  After lunch we walked around the historic district and shopped in a couple of shops and took in the sights.  There are so many cute historic homes there.  The town has a quaint feel and definitely a lot of southern charm.

 

Sisters Day Trip: County Line Orchard

Allison and I have gone up to Hobart, Indiana to the County Line Orchard the last two years (2014 and 2015) and continued this tradition this year.  We had a tough time finding a weekend day that we were both available so we ended up choosing a week day to head up to the orchard.  Somehow we have always wound up going on or right before September 14th (our dad's birthday!).  I worked a couple hours in the morning yesterday and then we made our way up north to the Region.  We decided we would have lunch at Three Floyds BrewPub in Munster first.  We both ordered the hot chicken sandwich.  We were a little concerned when the guy who brought our food mentioned there were two brave girls at the table but we both managed to survive, although it was quite spicy!  Of course since we ended up at Three Floyds during the week, we had to pick up some Zombie Dust to go.  We left with 4 cases after getting some orders from friends.

With our cargo in back, we made our way over to County Line Orchard, which is only about 30 minutes away from the brewery.  We were amazed at the difference a week day makes! No crowds and no lines! The orchard is famous for their donuts, pumpkin and apple spice.  We have waited in long lines in the past but yesterday we just walked right up to the order window and got our donuts! Once we finally decided what all we wanted to purchase from the store (I went with a dozen donuts, a jar of peach butter, a jar of apple butter, a package of pumpkin fudge, a cherry apple cider, and a minestrone soup mix), we paid our admission into the u-pick fields.  In years past I ended just purchasing pre-picked bags as the types ready for picking were either not what I wanted or the apples were already fairly picked over.  This year I was able to pick some on my own!  We stopped and got a cookie for the road and I also got an apple cider slush on the way out before returning to Lafayette.  We definitely learned that we need to continue to go on weekdays!

Day Trip: Bloomington

A few weeks ago, I mentioned to Wyatt that we hadn't been to Bloomington all summer.  We decided we'd make a day trip soon.  While we were at it we would go ahead down to Orange County to visit my Papaw too since we hadn't been to visit him since May.  So on Saturday we started out early so we could visit Papaw mid-morning.  It's a three hour drive to his house from ours so we were thrilled with gorgeous weather and not much traffic.

View from Papaw's driveway is one of my favorites.

We had lunch in Paoli at the Lost River Co-Op with my parents before making our way to Bloomington.  We found parking right near Kirkwood and made a few stops in stores along Kirkwood before having a drink at Kilroys.  I'm sure I have mentioned before how much I loved Kilroys on Kirkwood so it is always on our must do list when we spend time in Bloomington.  After our beer, we walked up to campus.  There is nothing prettier than the IU Bloomington campus....nothing.  I love it so much.  This visit I decided I wanted to go to the top of Ballantine because I had never been past the 4th floor. The view of campus up there is incredible!

I had several big lectures in Ballantine just down the hall from where this picture was taken.

After going to the top of Ballantine we made our way back over to Teter.  We met there ten years ago when we both lived in Teter Rabb.  I lived on the first floor and Wyatt lived on the third floor along with some of my favorite boys at IU.  I made the best group of friends on Rabb 1 and we were lucky to have such cool guys just a couple floors above us.  After Teter, we headed back to the car and then we had dinner at Nick's!  Wyatt had never had Sink the Biz fries so I forced him to try them.  Word on the street is that he's never played Sink the Biz either. We'll have to try that on a night we're staying in town.

Teter Rabb

Found my old mailbox.

It was such a gorgeous afternoon, we were sad to leave that evening but we're already making plans to return for a soccer game soon! Back in the day, we happened to attend a soccer game together as friends.  And if you've made it this far here is a nice little side by side.  We explore campus every time we get the chance and I'm constantly amazed at discovering new things but some of our favorites are photo ops that we often return to time and time again.  Our very first picture as a couple after a few months of dating was in front of the Sample Gates when we met in Bloomington for a weekend in 2012 and I've been making him get them ever since then because it's my favorite spot on campus. Below is another of my faves.  I just love this old bench!