South Carolina / North Carolina Vacation PART ONE

We headed up to Charleston on a Friday morning. We got a later start that we had planned and Avery wanted to go to the bathroom every 15 minutes or so. Needless to say it was a very, very long ride. Once we finally got into town we met my cousin and his wife at the restaurant and I think I must have downed a beer in less than 2 minutes. No kidding. Driving with these two can be rather stressful and I drove the entire way. Once we wrapped up lunch, we headed over to see DD (she came up and stayed the night at her neice Claire's house right up the road from where we were staying) so we could drop Avery off with her for the evening (actually, the next two evenings). It was such a nice night of no kids, good food and too many drinks, but it was all so very necessary - we were in need of some serious adult time. We were in Isle of Palms/Sullivan's Island to see JJ Grey & Mofro. We had planned to go Saturday night, but ended up going Friday night (last 6 songs) as well. They were great! Saturday AM about 11 we finally were ready to go to Charleston to have breakfast/lunch and I was the only one that was a little rough around the edges, but nothing that a McDonalds hamburger couldn't fix.

It was SO hot in Charleston - the car registered 107 degrees. That weekend was the tall ships festival, but it was entirely too hot to even get out of the car. We all met our other cousin Kenneth at Hymen's and enjoyed a few po boy sandwiches. I was lucky enough to sit at the very seat where Sandra Bullock had sat once before. This restraunt leaves little plaques where all the celebrities sit at the tables. Kind of cute. Saturday night we had a great meal and headed out to Sullivan's Island to see the concert. The concert was just as good as the night before.

Sunday morning we all got up and headed out of Charleston. We headed to our next vacation destination - Bennettsville, SC. We needed to go pick up Avery and spend the night on the farm with Grandad and DD. When we got there we were pretty much useless - all that adult partying had caught up with us, so we laid in the hammock and took it easy, cooked dinner and took a few 4 wheeler rides.

Charleston, SC 107 degrees

In Bennettsville, SC...
We took some pictures out in the fields.

Riding the 4 wheeler out to the fields.

Chillin' with her Daddy


Scott was trying to take a cool Stafford pic.

7AM 4 wheeler ride down to the pond to take pictures.