the tip of the peninsula that charleston lies on (you cannot see fort sumter in the distance, but it's there)
rainbow row (a famous row of multicolored charleston houses)
oh yeah, a baby eating prunes in the park!
we used priceline to get a cheap hotel, and it turned out to be really decent. it was right next to this little residential lake, and we went out and sat there in the mornings before dane took a short morning nap.
dane loves to try and give me kisses. really, he's just grabbing my hair as hard as he can and lunging to eat my face. but you can think of it as kisses if you want to.
we splurged a little bit and went on a carriage tour of charleston (with about 15 other people--it wasn't private or fancy). it was neat to see all the beautiful houses in the historic district of the city.
just like on the little nature tram, dane got bored, so we tried to entertain him by taking pictures of him . . . it worked for about 30 seconds.
poor guy, he totally has food remnants all over his face. he probably has terrible parents.
waiting for our lunch from the to-go place
we were very disappointed in the food. ugh. but we ate it in a nice park near the water, which made it a little bit better.
these charleston houses were so amazing. the "front door" of the house wasn't really a front door at all--it just led onto the bottom floor balcony of the house. all the "original" charleston houses were only one room wide and two or three stories tall--for ventilation purposes, so they could open the windows and let the breeze come in in the hot summers. most of them had two or three balconies. our carriage tour guide told us that most of these houses were worth 1.2 million per FLOOR. not too shabby.
an historic house museum that we toured (the nathaniel russel house).
this super cool inn right next to the battery park (right at the tip of the peninsula) where i want to stay next time we go. don't these fantastic trees just kill you? they look like the coolest climbing trees ever.
dane at the battery.
baby on a cannon!
i know it's not that funny, because thousands of people died, but it always seems funny to me to see monuments to the confederacy, because growing up i always had the impression that the confederates were evil and loved slavery and that anyone promoting the confederacy now must be racist and hate the government. i've now figured out that's probably not true, but i still like how it seems subversive to honor the rebels.
again, this poor baby. i was apparently scatterbrained while i was packing because i not only forgot most of my toiletries (including my deodorant . . . gross!) but i also forgot to pack any bibs for him. so we had to make do without bibs the whole weekend. this was how tommy was feeding him breakfast yesterday morning, with the hotel hand towels protecting the carseat and himself. but he didn't seem to mind!
we were all very glad to make it home from charleston (particularly since dane cried a lot of the way home, even though we'd specifically waited all day to drive when he would be asleep), but i'm also very glad we went. since tommy's graduating in a year, we know we're most likely going to be moving somewhere else, and we want to take advantage of being this close to so many interesting places. hopefully we move somewhere else new where we can explore even more!
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