Sisters Trip +1 and A Ghost Story - May 2011

For our sisters trip this year we went to Charleston, SC.  It was so fun!!!!  We had lots of good food, and I actually wrote down all the places we ate at, and what we ate, but I can't find that card... So, I'll add all that when I find the card...

One of Marianne's friends she met while living in Hawaii came with us on our trip, Kari.  Kari laughed with us during my dad's wedding reception so she had already won me over and we were okay having her as a +1 on our sisters trip!

When we arrived we headed straight to the ocean.  I'm actually not sure why... it's not like we went swimming or anything...

Marianne checking out the water

Mariane and Candi excited to be on our sisters trip!!

 

 

Candi's bedhead - never a shortage of laughs on our trips

Before our horse drawn carriage ride.

Honestly, Charleston smells like horse pee.  It really does.

A lot of houses have these embracing arms staircases at the front entrance of their houses - baiscally symbolizing a welcoming hug as guests enter your home.  How come I didn't know that already? 

 

Most of the houses in Charleston have the cielings of their front porches painted "haint blue."  It's supposed to keep the evil spirits, or "haints" (haunts) out of your house.

Had to take a picture of wet willies

Slightly North of Broad stands for snob. Everything north of broad street back in the day was more upper class, etc.

"Have I died and gone to hell?  Becuase this is what hell would be like for me, all this shopping."  The best Kari quote of the trip.  Unfortunately, Kari doesn't like shopping and she had been forwarned that our sisters trips involved a lot of shopping.... I think she thought that people couldn't shop that much...

Lots of seer sucker in Charleston.  We walked by this store and when I went back to take a picture, one of the sales clerks was wearing the same suit!  We talked to him for a bit.  When we walked away we laughed imagining my John in a seer sucker suit... 

We ate at Poogan's Porch

It was a little chilly outside.   Kari was keeping warm with the tablecloth.

 

 

So, before leaving Poogans Porch we all used the bathroom.  I was the last to go, and while I was washing my hands for some reason I just did not want to look in the mirror, I was a little bit too scared for some reason.  When I got out of the bathroom, I told everyone I couldn't bring myself to look in the mirror thinking a ghost would pop up or something and everyone laughed at me. 

 

Not even kidding, that night we went on a ghost tour, and we stopped outside of this same restaurant and the tour guide at the end said, and usually she appears in the upstairs bathroom mirror.  Everyone looked at me, and I said, "See!!!"  It gave me the shivers!

 

We booked the ghost tour over the phone and had to meet our guide at night in a little park like place.  He was a little late, and it was a little freaky to me waiting for him.  It ended up just being us on the tour.  He came and took our money and said he was going to go put it in the car.  I was like, "He could be a scammer and just take off with our money!"  He did come back though.  That ghost tour was fun and a little bit weird because our guide was a little wierd.  He kept trying to scare us at the end of the story he slam his hand against the clipboard he was carrying. 

 



I can't remember the name of this restaurant, but it is a very popular spot, and a big touristy place to go, so we had to try it out.  Lame.  The worst place we ate.  Something someone ordered was good though, I don't remember who.  It was a country cooking kind of place and we decided that a lot of people don't grow up with good country cooking like we did, so they might actually think that food is good, but it's not.

 

We went to Boone Hall Plantation.  We really enjoyed it!!  This plantation has been used in lots of movies and shows.  This drive up to the house was used in Gone with the Wind.

A serpintine fence

Did anyone ever see North & South - this is where they filmed a lot of it.

These shingles were formed over slaves thighs.  Crazy right?

A slave house

There were so many pretty flowers everywhere, but I didn't post them...

Slave Row. 

The plantation had a store a little bit down the road that was kind of like a Whole Foods kind of place.  We ate there.  The sandwhich I had had been featured in Southern Living Magazine, so of course I had to try it.  I remember the BBQ was great too!!

Another beach day

This picture of Marianne just looks so peaceful and serene.  I love it because that's how our girls trips make us all feel!! 

This was at our hotel

Marianne jumped in the pool with her clothes on

So, I was trying to find sunglasses on this trip, and it's a really hard thing to do because glasses and hats do not look good on me.  Kari, however looks good in any hat or sunglasses.  To prove her point, we put a lot of ugly hats and sunglasses on her, and it's true she could rock any hat or sunglasses.

The sisters trip was so fun!!  Kari can be our adopted sister anytime (minus the shopping).  We had so much good food, which I'll add what it was when I find that card I wrote it down on.  But, we had a lot of good BBQ, did a lot of fun shopping, and ate some yummy pralines.  Such a fun trip!!