Trip to Charleston

A little overdue post, but it was so much fun that a little lateness will just have to be overlooked.  We went up to see my  folks (to Adeline and Essie – Sassy and Grandpa).  Actually Essie calls Gradpa, Epapa… it is sooo cute.  We had fun going downtown.  Though my Dad had to skip out as he is still recovering from that knee replacement. We ate at Wild Wings, checked out the public bathrooms (nice I must say), and went on a carriage tour.  I probably shouldn’t mention the bathroom visit, but really I could probably do a south eastern review of public bathrooms, rest-stops, visitor centers and the like.  Back to Charleston: We had so much fun waiting for the tour and after the tour seeing their animals.  The guy we bought the tickets from was named Calhoun.  I kind of closed my eyes and prepared for the worst, but nope neither Adeline nor Essie let out that our dog was named Calhoun.  One reason they didn’t was he had a deep southern accent and it definitely sounded a bit different than when we yell out the door for the dog to come back in.  Yep we did the tourist thing and it was wonderful.  We even got to go over to a friend of my moms and go swimming.  We did that all in one day actually.  The day prior we were battling those pesky lice.  It is over a month – so thank goodness those bugs are behind us.  I will say one funny thought I had was when we went to Walmart to buy our delousing treatment.  I was looking at organic options and pesticides.  It was just so gross to see 6 or so bugs in my child’s hair I only pondered this a minute before I chose the full out out pesticides.  I wanted them GONE and fast.

Us downtown (still feels like home):

We loved the animals/horses at the Carriage barn: