SC Vacay Day 6 - Departure

Friday came, our final day and fly out day. Went for one last beach run before getting the AirBnB all cleaned up and ready for check out. We wanted to allow plenty of time to return the rental car and make it through the airport. We had to check out at 10am so just headed toward the airport at that time after saying goodbye to the beach from the pier. 

Eating lunch at the airport, waiting to board the plane:

Wheels UP! 

 

SC Vacay Day 5 - Patriot's Point USS Yorktown, City Market, Dinner Reservations

Thursday, our last full day, August 5th. We checked out patriots point. Here there was the USS Yorktown to explore. 

We spent a great deal of time walking ALL through the two ships (small one first then the big one). 

Kids are inside this little simulator thing that played a video:

There were multiple tours taking you all throughout the many many rooms. Kind of like a maze. The signs kept the kids engaged while we'd try and speed read a few of the informational signs. 

Made it to the top and time for snack. 

Felt really good to be outside. 

Then at this point I think Thomas had pooped his pants, or had to poop, can't remember which but we had to bee line it to the nearest bathroom which was not very close. 

Finished up exploring and then went to the Shem Creek area for lunch. Glad we stopped here for lunch instead of dinner because it was $$$$ but had a GREAT view of the creek. Got to see so many paddle boarders and cancers. It was rainy, but people were still out enjoying the water. 

We were all pretty tired, as you can see by Mary's face, lol. Physically reaching the end of the trip. We decided to drive around for just a bit to let our feet relax. Went over by City Market again, I wanted to see the basket weavers. 

These ladies weren't the nicest and told me to stop when I tried to take a photo. 

We were done for the day and decided to head back to the condo to have some downtime before our dinner reservation. Walked out to the pier and played at the playground while Thomas laid down. Not sure if he ended up actually sleeping or not before it was time to leave for dinner. Which ended up being a mess. I dropped Kyle off for our reservation and then drove around searching for a parking spot... literally took half and hour to find a parking spot which kinda defeats the purpose of reservations.. all I remember was I was almost in tears, Isaac was most definitely in tears, we were all tired and probably just ready to go home. We had a little family meeting once finally seated at the table. We ordered a boil (eating at a Crab House) it ended up being WAY smaller than we expected, the kids ate it up so we ordered another. Went home and watched some olympics then hit the hay for our final night. 

 

SC Vacay Day 4 - Beach Play, Park, Pier, The Battery

 

Wednesday morning, August 4th. I got up for another run. Kyle did a run as well and did the bridge peak and back. 

Pretty cloudy, I did see some dolphins swimming with the surfers. 

 

We got in some morning beach time with low tide while I worked on loads of Landry at the condo's laundry mat. Had to bed the grocery store for change because I'd ran out of quarters from doing sheet laundry the day before. She told me she's not suppose to because of the nation wide coin shortage but did anyway. Turns out this lady was giving all of us change because two other people in the laundry mat encountered the same story. 

This was the remains of our sand castle from the night before. It was right by the water last night at high tide and this morning it was WAYYYY up far from the water. 

 

 

Learning the difference between palm trees and palmetto trees. 

Got cleaned up from the beach then headed into town for lunch at the Grit Counter. Some more shrimp and grits... but not as good as the other place. Too much gravy, could have done without the gravy all together. 

We had some time to kill before plans to meet a friend at a park. So we hit the Mount Pleasant river front park and playground. 

And discovered this awesome pier so walked out to the end. This runs under the big bridge: Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge. 

Then we drove about 5 minutes away to meet my friend that I hadn't met in person before but we've known each other for 13 years! So that was fun!

Weather was still kinda drizzly. So we went for a drive into Charleston and got Thomas to nap in the car. Then stopped at the White Point Garden which is the tip of Charleston over the battery. 

Went for a walk along East Battery. 

Stopped at Hazel Parker Playground, trying to figure out what to do for dinner while the kids played and we used the public restroom. 

Then walked back to our car. 

We ended up going to a restaurant near Shem Creek called Page's Okra Grill. There wasn't too bad of a wait. We learned quickly that our lack of planning dinner was a problem. We are usually early dinner eaters so we don't typically have an issue with the dinner rush... but with it being east coast time our 5:00/5:30 dinner was now 6/6:30 dinner and every place was so crowded. So we finally made reservations for the next night at a place we had tried to get in the night before.