Charleston, South Carolina

Marco and I headed down to Charleston Saturday Morning... he'll be down there all this week working, so we though that we'd see the sights while we were at it. We'd never been to Charleston before so it was a cool adventure!! Depending on when he gets done this week we might spend next weekend there too!!

We went over to the beach on Sullivan's Island, and me being corny me wrote our names in the sand. There was this cool square lighthouse near the beach access that we parked by, but of course I didn't think to take a picture of that until I got back to Raleigh... maybe next weekend.


This is the bridge that you have to cross to get over to Sullivan's Island. The people that we stayed with said that this is the biggest cable bridge in the US... They also talked about the loggerhead turtles that come to lay their eggs on the coast of the rivers.... well apparently they get disoriented with lights, so, during the loggerhead egg-laying-season they dim the lights on the bridge so that the turtles lay their eggs and keep the loggerhead species intact... i don't know if it's all that dramatic, but there you go.

We hung out at the Battery (a park on the tip of the peninsula of Charleston) a bunch while we were there. Apparently it is the number one place in Charleston to get married (there were two weddings while we were there), but back in the olden days it was used as the location that they hung the pirates.... they kept their bodies there swingin' in the wind for a couple of days as a warning to all the other pirates that passed by. It's also the place that Charleston got "battered" the most with cannon fire and stuff during some war (I'm not very good with history). Thus the name the Battery


Here are some pics of Marco hangin' out at the Battery. They had a cool sea-wall walk-way thingy.

Here is a pic of me (all gross cause of the HOTness and the ucky humidity) pinchin' the naked statue's wee-wee.

Here are a couple of pics of houses that were along the Battery. All the houses South of Broad are Historic and worth over a million. The most recent one that sold was for 7.7Million. One of the ones that was turned into an Inn is really cool (2 Market Street Inn). The father of the lady that built it gave her a load of money and told her to build her dream house (apparently she modeled it after her wedding cake.. and there are a few stained glass Tiffany windows) Her in-laws gave her and her husband a 2-year Honeymoon in Europe and a ridiculous amount of money to buy furniture. Today all the original furniture is still in the house, and no one under 12 years old is allowed inside. The pics I have below are just private residences.

Here's Marco ridin' the cannon, and me just hangin' out in the park... nothin' too exciting.

Here is a truck that Marco liked..... 8 wheels. BIG TRUCK!!

And here's the sun going down behind the palms.

It was a fun trip. Other than hanging out at the Battery, we went on a Carriage Tour and saw some pretty cool stuff. We had some wings at a place called "Sticky Fingers" and shrimp at "Bubba Gumps" We walked around the open air market, saw people making roses out of palm fronds, and baskets out of sugar grass. Next time I think I'd like to do a little shopping, get some souvenir's, and maybe take another tour... maybe the Gullah Tour.