Charleston.

Are you ready for a picture overload, because if you look through this whole post, that's exactly what you're gonna get!

Day 1 we didn't take any pictures, I just thought wow it's so beautiful, I'd love to do a bridal shoot down here sometime! We walked to beach, it was a little to chilly for my liking, then we went to Ft. Moultrie, Carleton climbed on a cannon and scoped out cannons big enough to put Tessa in. That night we went to Poe's for dinner, it's mainly a burger joint named after Edgar Allen Poe and his burgers are named after his writings.

Day 2:

Here we are on top of Ft. Sumter, this was one of Carleton "must do" items. Interesting fact, the Civil War was started on April 12 (Carleton's bday), 1861 at Ft. Sumter!

Here we are on the Ferry leaving Ft. Sumter. On the way there we saw a TON of dolphins alongside the boat jumping beside us, when we were standing in the back there was one following us he kept popping his head up and blowing air out of his blow hole, so cute!

After Ft. Sumter we went downtown with John and Jack, had lunch at Sticky Fingers which was really yummy! We got BBQ and peach cobbler, mmmmm. I want some right now! Shortly after, we decided to split so John could go meet his wife and everyone else while we did a little sightseeing for ourselves. We walked a LOT.

I couldn't decide which way I liked the fountain better, what do you think?

Carleton was in love with the cobblestone roads

I'm not sure where we are in all these places...battery park maybe? Kristin, Carleton...a little help here?

I wanted some fun silhouette shots of the birds, but they were all pretty much gone by the time we got to them (there were dozens more just seconds earlier).

Carleton took this picture, I love the leading lines:)

Sitting, waiting for the rest of our group

Carleton told me all about the Hunley about 15 times by the time we ran into this so he HAD to get a picture, he is very excited to show his dad and see if he knows what it is.

When we were planning our trip, Allison whipped out her 1,000 places to go throughout the US and Canada, among those must visit places was Charleston. It gives you some things to do while there, one was to eat at Bowens Island Restaurant. We saw the menu, Carleton was sold from "Big Old Seafood Platter". Don't let the fact that this restaurant has a website fool you, it doesn't seem like a very legal establishment! We were a little ways behind the Gochnours, Ted was following the directions the GPS was giving us, even after it turned us onto a dirt road. We saw the Gochnours up ahead turning around saying they went a little further and there was pretty much no way a restaurant was up there. Well we ended up driving all the way down this dirt road and to our astonishment, there was a "restaurant" there. By restaurant I mean a place to order, then down wooden bridge/short boardwalk type thing, a wooden shed with netting over the "windows" and and heaters throughout. There was a black dog that kept walking by our table while we ate. I'm not even sure if there was a bathroom...outhouse maybe? Carleton recorded some of our drive back to the main road, but got bored with talking to himself so stopped before we even hit it. That's how long of a drive it was on the dirt road! I've tried posting the video for the past two days and after using a different web browser, it finally worked, ugh. Anyway...after we left Allison decided to fill us in on the fact that she saw a big rat by the ice bucket when we were ordering...good thing we got bottled waters! Aside from oysters they only served fried food, my crabcake had an entire crab claw in it. To their credit, it was quite the experience and they had mighty good fried shrimp! I wanted to wear my little black dress to dinner that night, SO glad I didn't get the chance to go back to the hotel and change!

Just part of the oyster massacre outside of the restaurant, it goes on a ways in both directions!

Day 3: Another of Carleton's "must do" list was the USS Yorktown...so here we are in that... it was a little complex

and just my size

but not Carleton's

The last thing a bird sees and the expression it makes before it dies

The stairs were SO narrow, my heels are pushed all the way back!

He got really into this, there are 5 other pictures of him doing different action shots

I just got in

Like I said, he LOVES this stuff and gets really into it.

That's the Yorktown and battleship behind us

The submarine was even smaller, we both had a hard time getting through those doorways

Boone Hall Plantation, the last stop on our trip. Can anyone...aside from Kristin and those that went on our trip name the movie that was filmed here...ok there's more than one, but it's a chick flick and it's only part of the movie, but still.

This is the oldest living, working plantation, and the most photographed! Here is Carleton showing us some cotton.

Our whole fabulous group!

Ted and Tessa in this picture=postcard material

We loved these trees

and this one

Here's the house...

John and Melanie

and their munchkins, Jack and Jonah

Jonah and Tessa

Ted, Allison, and Tessa

and of course, as to not disappoint any of our loyal readers, we will seal this post with a kiss :*