Thoughts from the oven: Trip to Charleston

On New Years day, Sarah, Buddy, Maurine, Cody, Wes and I went to Charleston, SC. We rented a house about 10 miles outside of downtown called the Lord's House. When arrived, Sarah and Maurine cooked an awesome fondue dinner which included a side of chicken and greenbean bundles; the food was really delicious. We spent the rest of the night just hanging out playing catch phrase, apples to apples, and our new game, Befudiom.

The next day (Friday), we went to Ft. Moultrie. The fort has been around since the revolutionary war and is really cool.

This is a picture of me and the boys pretending we are climbing over the walls to attack the fort. Don't we look intimidating?

A photo for the front cover of our new Album...

This is me riding "shot gun" ...HA! Can't you see why Sarah married me?

Sarah, Wes, and Cody pose for a nice family photo (above). Sarah thought this was a really big telescope...turns out it was a gun.

After Ft. Moultrie, we all went to downtown Charleston. We shopped, ate fudge, walked to the battery, played on the Charleston swings and had a lot of fun. That night we ate dinner at very rustic fish joint.

On Saturday, the 6 of us chartered a boat out to an island that has the 6th oldest lighthouse in America. The man who charted the boat was Captain Gresh. Captain Gresh gave us a lot of information on Charleston, lots of history and had a lot of really cool stories about the land and water around Charleston. The ride on the boat was very cold. Poor Sarah had on lots of layers and still froze. This is a picture with our "we are miserable" looks on. While we were heading back to land captain Gresh scooped up this jelly fish. For some reason, this particular kind of jelly fish does not sting. We also came across some dolphins. It was difficult to get a good picture of them, but it was really cool watching them swim and play. I asked Captain Gresh if I could get out and ride their fins and he said that in Charleston, messing with a dolphin is a $20,000 fine and up to one year in prison...Glory bE!