Today was a lucky day! We got up early and were off to Savannah by 7:15am. We had been gone about an hour or so when Mom saw that she had written in our journal that we would be going to Charleston today. Uh oh. I wasn't sure when I had made the reservations for our tour of Charleston! We were about to call the Visitor Center to find out which day we were scheduled, when my phone rang. It was the Visitor Center lady! She said we were scheduled for today! So we let "Camilla" (GPS) know that we would be going to Charleston instead of Savannah and she directed us there. Then we arrived in time to get on an earlier tour and that made the whole day go easier!
Again, driving was too slow and tedious. We decided that we were not up for going all the way to Savannah tomorrow -- too much driving and not enough time there this trip.
When we got "home", we quickly took another walk on the beach. It's getting cool. Tomorrow is supposed to be quite cold.
Oh! Last night we went to the recommended restaurant. It smelled of smoke and there was no non-smoking section. Needless to say, we were out of there! We found another restaurant that was about the size of a Walmart. It offered a buffet, which we don't like, but the waitress recommended that we share the seafood platter that also included the salad, soup, and dessert bar. OMG! It was so much food that we had some of the leftovers for lunch today and will probably have 1 or 2 meals off of it tomorrow! Luckily it also tasted very good! We have had some type of seafood for every meal except breakfast every day!
Just one of the many beautiful homes in Charleston.
We saw lots of BEAUTIFUL old homes on our tour of Charleston. And we learned alot about the city. One of the most interesting things we learned was that homes like the one above were called "single" homes because they were only as wide as a single room and they had these outside doors that looked like they entered the house, but really only go into the porch (piazza). That way the family could have privacy when sitting on the piazza.
We took a boat out to Ft. Sumter today. Here's Mom on the top of the fort.
Here's Camilla, our GPS! We love her! In the background is the Francis Marion National Forest.
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