Early alarm this morning even on a vacation day because we have an appointment to ride the horse and buggy rides around the old town of Charleston at 9:00 today and it is 30 minutes from here if traffic is good.
We all were ready to go at 8:15 and headed out.
We crossed the Ravenel bridge on the way into Charleston.
Luckily we hit no traffic and arrived about 15 minutes early. Our horse was named Gary and he was a real sweet heart.
But IR wasn't sure what to think about this big animal.
Our guide was a true native of Charleston and very good in telling all about the route we were sent on.
We rode through some beautiful streets and he told us about all the old houses and that a house now in most of Charleston sold for double figured millions.
These ,what we call porches or verandas , there are called piazzas .And all houses are required to have wooded window shutters with the louvered ones on the upper floor and solid ones on the bottom.
We learned so many interesting facts on this tour I truly enjoyed it and I think everyone else did also.
Well …… except for the girls and IR said this is what she thought of all the information !!!
IR and RL went to sleep on the hour long ride but before they dozed off they found each others hands in a sweet show of cousin love.
When the ride was over we headed out to the old market place in downtown Charleston.
There were so many interesting booths in this large market place and we all found some things we couldn't do without.
I made some sweet grass flower purchases from the sweetgrass basket weavers that were plentiful in the market place.
After we shopped there we went to the Crab House restaurant to have lunch. Another delicious meal.
We made our way down to the Battery where there was a cruise ship loading to set sale.
The kids had sno-cones to help beat the heat.
We found Pawpaw's place !!!
Sadly son-in-love had to leave and head back home to go to work tomorrow when we got back to our cars.
We all came back to the condos and headed for the pool to cool off in the heat of the day.
After a while at the pool we hit the beach .
IR got to try out her new smart Trik and she loved it.
RL had to have a turn in it also.
We walked down to an ice cream shop this evening and then relaxed for the evening watching this gorgeous sunset as there is still a few clouds hanging around from Chris the tropical storm.
Thankful for another wonderful blessed vacation day.
God Bless and Good Night
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Looks like a beautiful place for a vacation.
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