The fishing pier at Folly beach. Most memorable moments, loosing my top in the ocean, eating shrimp bisque and fried shrimp, and super hot southern gentlemen with 6 packs and southern accents
Well I do declare that we look super cute! Shot just after Danette's run in with a jelly fish. Folly Beach was amazingly clean and beautiful!
Magnolia Plantation, most memorable moments, our hot southern tour guide, the tour of the old house and history of the family. I never tired of hearing about the genteel south, their money, their history, etc.
Mommy Daughter moment, check out the swamp in the background, the green stuff is the tiniest flowering plant, saw some alligators, giant spiders, and beautiful flowers. I can only imagine this place when the Magnolias are in bloom.
On the deck of a southern mansion. The architecture was amazing and the little details in the moldings and furniture. The historical society does an excellent job, preserving and restoring. The history of the slaves was heartbreaking. They preserved several outbuildings where they lived, worked, cooked, and were held in servitude. It is astonishing.
A respite from our odd tour guide on a city tour. He made for some non stop giggling for the rest of the trip as Danette and I would take turns impersonating his accent and stories. A little snippet for you is he and his sister Aggie sharing a peanut butter pickle sandwich, He and his wife staying in the wedding cake like house B and B and how amazing the sheets are, and graduation at College of Charleston with girls in short white shorts, and sundresses. Have mercy folks......
Shall we or shant we sign the Declaration of Independence? I think we shall....the likes of George Washington himself and several founding fathers lived and made history right here in Charleston.
We posed looking afraid in the Provost dungeon where pirates and later southern nobility successioners were kept, but then the entire tour turned our way as our breech wearing tour guide continued to try to be funny..Danette stayed in character, I did not. Well played Fernan. Had Collen been able to figure out how to use a camera, this moment may never have happened...
Let me out of here you British tea bags....
bouncing benches that were everywhere. Apparently if a gentleman and a lady were to accidentally scoot together they had to get married, or if he saw her ankles of course! Oh-Oh dear Danette and Colleen are mine for good!
Netti on our harbor cruise, can you see the coast of Charleston, so so pretty!
Sweating our guts out on Ft. Summter where the civil war began...damn southerners. Stuff I left out: going out at night in our pajamas to retrieve coconut cake from The Peninsula Grill, Coka Cola cake, popcorn, and whatever else Danette was craving. Watching The Help in a theater that served pizza, popcorn, and root bear floats, shopping shopping, shopping, the old market, buying tons of new books and reading, and eating. We did so much eating that we made a food journal of our favorite restaurants and favorite things we ate because it was really a food journey-- a journey of food. So amazing and good. Just a few of my favorites: beet salad, she crab soup, crab cakes, fried chicken, fried shrimp, soft shell crab, steak that I can't pronounce that was super fancy and melt in your mouth good, banana cream yum, sorgum date cake with malt ice cream?, I could go on, but you get the point. I like food, I love really good ingredients, and southern cooking and so do my mom and Nett. FABULOUS
5 comments:
You are a nerd. And I love it. I also LOVE Charleston, like a lot.
Ahhhh, SO fun! You have pointed out every single dad gum thing I love about the South, I'm pretty sure! The history is absolutely fascinating and I feel I can never learn enough. Every time I visit a plantation, I still feel such shock when hearing all about slavery, even though I've heard about it dozens of times before. It definitely hits home more, though, when you are really seeing how it was for them. This looks like an AMAZING trip! I am voting that y'all head to New Orleans for your next round of Girls Gone Wild. We could show y'all a good time! :)
Oh, and ps--it really is an amazing sight when the magnolias are in bloom. I wish you could have seen it. Honestly, AMAZING!
What a fun trip!! I got hungtry just reading your list of yummy foods... you need try re creating some of those fantastic things and sharing!!
What a fun fun trip! You were very brave to do it in the Summer heat/humidity! But the food was worth it, huh?
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