Vacation Day 1

I'm sure there will not be a daily update but here is Day 1 from our trip to Charleston.

We left Caroline this morning in the care of Gigi and Grandude.  We've talked with Mom twice and she said Caroline is happy as can be.  I'm so thankful (both for Mom and Vern and my sweet girl)!!

We arrived in Charleston around lunch time and headed to the hotel where they gave us a map of Charleston and told us some places to visit.  We went to the Shem Creek area and ate lunch at Vickery's.  We both had fish sandwiches, which were pretty good.  We then headed down to the harbor area and visited the Ft. Sumter visitor center and checked out some of the huge ships, barges and boats.  The temperature today was perfect.  However, it really wasn't that "pretty" out because the sun was hidden by the clouds all day. After walking around a bit, we headed back to the hotel to rest for awhile before dinner.

Dinner turned into a bit of a fiasco when the first two restaurants we tried to visit were closed.  We ended up driving a little bit out of the way to Folly Beach and it was great.  The area was pretty touristy but it was fun.  We had a good dinner and then went on a short walk on the beach.  We saw the biggest and brightest rainbow I have ever seen in my entire life!  It's hard to tell from the picture but the colors were amazing and you could see from one end of the rainbow all the way to the other end!  It was a sweet end to a little bit of a rough night. 

I'm looking forward to a few more days with Mark!