Where do I even begin to explain how amazing and fun our trip to Charleston, SC was! I am so glad that we took a weekend getaway and decided to go. We have always talked about it but have never found the time or money. I am so glad that we finally followed through with this trip.
(just a fair warning, this blog may be a little long and lengthy. But I promise to make it fun and interesting with lots of pictures)
Our vacation started on Thursday night. Beau and Alyse's flight came into Charlotte around 6:20pm on Thursday. I drove down to Charlotte by myself to pick them up as Brandon had a mock trial that night for school. We went out for some dinner and drinks and met up with Brandon later on that night after his trial was over.
Friday morning we hit the road for Charleston. It's about a 4 1/2 hour drive and hotel check in time at 4pm, so we knew if we left the house around 10am we would have time to stop for breakfast and make a few other stops along the way before we were able to check in.
Our first stop on the way to Charleston was the Waffle House for breakfast. A place you must try if your in the South. True southern greasy food, but we knew that we were going to eat our hearts out this vacation so we decided to start our unhealthy eating weekend early, haha!
After a l...o...n...g 4-5 hour car drive and a few rest stop breaks we finally arrived in Charleston around 3:45pm. Just in time for check-in. All of us were more than ready to get out of the car and do a little bit of site-seeing and definitely some drinking. We checked into the hotel and than went for a walk down Ocean Blvd which is right along the ocean and right where our hotel is located. Absolutely beautiful! Here are just a few pictures from our walk along the beach. We also found some pretty funky looking house along the way.
This is one of the houses that we walked by that is located right on the beach. It's not every day that you see a house that color. There is also palm trees everywhere. Totally makes you feel like you are someone much more tropical than in the South Carolina!
This house was one of the many houses up for sale in Isle of the Palms. They were all so beautiful and if I have the money when I'm old and retire I would buy one of these houses in a heart beat for a vacation home! We stayed in Isle of the Palms which is about 20-25min from downtown historic Charleston.
I had to make sure that we walked on the beach. I was not going to leave Charleston without walking along the Atlantic Ocean. The beaches are so sandy and clean and remind me of the beaches in Hawaii that's how pretty and white the sand is in South Carolina.
These guys were kite surfing! It was so windy out and the water was freezing. No heck way would you find me out in that water even with a wetsuit.
After we walked down the beach we ended up at this little place right next to our hotel to have some dinner and beers and than headed back to our hotel to hang out, play some drinking games and keep it pretty low key since we were going to have a long day ahead of us on Saturday.
Saturday morning we headed to the downtown historic Charleston. We took a taxi to the marina which is about 15 min from our hotel and than we took a water taxi across the harbor to downtown Charleston. We even got to see a few dolphins on our water taxi ride.
Waiting for our water taxi across the harbor
Once we arrived downtown we did lots of walking around, exploring, eating, drinking, picture taking and laughing. I highly recommend Charleston, SC as a place to see if anybody ever makes it out to the South East. There is nothing disappointing about Charleston. There is so much history there to see as well as lots of great seafood and shopping.
All the houses and buildings in Charleston are so unique and old. Most or all of them are brick and have little to no yard. A neat place to visit and go on vacations but not somewhere I would want to live.
Hope everyone enjoyed some of the pictures. Alyse took a lot of pictures with her camera too so once she e-mails them to me I'll make sure to share some of those with you as well.
We saw and did so much in Charleston those 2 days that we were there. Wish we could of stayed longer but I don't think that our wallets would of been able to handle it. Definitely a spendy mini vacation but totally worth every penny.
