Summer Vacation 2014: Part 2

After Savannah, we drove over to Charleston for the remainder of the week/vacation.  Instead of taking the interstates, we opted for highways off the beating path.  On our way in, we stopped to check out the Angel Oak and boy am I glad we did.  The Live Oak is massive and just amazing to see.  

After the Angel Oak, we drove over to Mt. Pleasant to check into our rental.  We used Airbnb to rent an apartment.  We stayed in a place right on Shem creek!  It had this amazing dock right out to the creek.  We loved the location and the owner was the nicest person.  We enjoyed watching sunset over the marsh with her on her back porch one evening.  Of course I made Wyatt go to Sticky Fingers on our first night in town.  It's a nostalgic favorite of mine.  

We walked around the historic district in Charleston.  I seriously love that place so much.  So much history and beauty that I can walk around the streets for hours just admiring it all and not get bored.  We had rain one day so we decided to drive over to Folly Beach for lunch and to try to see the Morris Island Light.  Unfortunately about three quarters of the way on the path to the beach (which is down an old road that is no longer traveled by cars), it began to pour on us.  We made it to beach's edge, saw the lighthouse for a second, and darted back to car.  

We had so many good eats on this trip.  We found this funky little dive bar, the Tattooed Moose, thanks to the guestbook in our apartment.  It was so delicious.  We also tried a new place to us, Prohibition, for our last meal there.  Oh my goodness, was it good.  We started with a duck quesadilla and then I got a Carolina Roll (blue crab and shrimp roll topped with fried oysters).  We tried Rita's on Folly Beach per the suggestion of one of my favorite bloggers, Megan from Holy City Chic.  I had the Southbound burger....a burger with pimento cheese!  We also made sure to eat at Hyman's Seafood.

Oh my sweet Carolina

Allison and I embarked on our first road trip together over the weekend...to Charleston, SC.  It is kind of fitting that we took this trip over Memorial Day weekend, as we got our wanderlust from our Papaw Gib.  Maybe our trip honored his memory just a little bit.  The trip was pretty impromtu...with only planning a few days in advanced.  We drove part of the way Friday night, staying in Knoxville, TN for the night, and arrived to our destination around 2 the next day.  We had a late lunch first at my favorite restaurant, Sticky Fingers.  After our lunch, we walked around downtown.  We made a trip through the market, stopped by the famous pineapple fountain and did some shopping on King Street.  We opted to head out to the beach as the evening approached and traveled over to the beaches at Isle of Palm at dusk.

Saturday we got up and went back downtown for a walk along the battery and over to Rainbow Row.  Since we thought the weather might not be as favorable in the afternoon that day due to Tropical Storm Beryl, we decided to check out a plantation.  We went on a tour of Boone Hall & Plantation.  The weather turned out to be fairly nice all day with the exception of some crazy wind.  We drove over to Sullivan's Island and then back up to the outlets for a little shopping.  We ended our time in Charleston with a dinner at Sticky Fingers in Mt. Pleasant.  On Sunday we hit the road early and managed to make it through the car packed interstates and home by 9.

Here is a link to my Google+ album of all my pictures from the trip.

We wanted to recreate a picture from the last time we were there, but no one around to take the picture of us together so this is our picture with the Pineapple Fountain.