A Weekend in Charleston

Last weekend we took a short "vacation" and went to Charleston Thursday-Saturday. We like Charleston a lot. It's only 3 hours from home and there are so many things to do! We've been there four times now and we've done different things everytime and we still haven't even come close to doing everything!

This time we went to Charles Towne Landing, which is where the settlers first landed in the area and settled, but had to move inland. Today, it's a state park and where there has been a lot of excavating and a lot of artifacts from the time of the settlers have been found. There is a historic trail that shows where the fort was and where some other buildings were and then there is an animal trail that has animals that were in the area when the settlers came over: bobcats, puma, bears, bison, deer, elk, turkeys, otters, wolves, and many different kinds of shore birds. There is also an alligator!

While we were in Charleston, we also went to Isle of Palms, the nicer beach part of the Charleston area. It was very nice. It would have been a bit better had we been "prepared" to go to the beach, but it was great anyway!
We also went antique shopping (we didn't buy any) and strolled through the market while we were there.
We had an interesting trip home because though it should only take us 3 hours to get home, it took us about 7! We took a couple of detours, stopping in Springfield, SC where Jonathan's dad was born, and then since it was "only" 45 miles away, we went to August, GA. It was interesting to me because I had never been to the parts of SC that we drove through and I had never been to Augusta. It was a great weekend and and the only thing that could have made it better was for it to have been longer. :-)