Charleston/Folly Beach with the Grahams

What a trip! This past weekend Mike and I headed down to South Carolina to meet up with the Graham's. Friday we got there around 4pm and hung around until Chris, Mandy, and Camryn got there around 5:30pm. Our first agenda after all the hugs was to hit up a seafood restaurant. We stayed in Folly Beach, I recommend that to anyone. You can walk to anything you need so no need to have to get out in traffic or worry about parking, etc. We walked out and we decided on Crab Shack. It was EXCELLENT!! We sat outside and I had a huge bucket of crab legs and shrimp. Mike and Mandy enjoyed a small trio of Mahi-mahi, scallops, and shrimp. Chris had some BBQ chicken and shrimp while Camryn had a nice plate of corn dog with fries. After dinner we headed back to the room for a few minutes and then walked along the beach. It was so wonderful to see Camryn sample the sand between her toes. She also went out to the ocean. Camryn loves the water and she is definitely a daredevil. If mom and dad allowed her, she would go as far as she could out in the ocean. After our little walk we headed back to room for bedtime. I think we were all exhausted from our long trips in the car earlier in the day.

Saturday we all woke up early to have breakfast and then got ready for the beach. It was such a lovely day. I kept thinking about our soon to be little ones and what a wonder it will be to see our childern play in the sand and ocean. Chris and Camryn built sandcastles. Well more like Chris build the castle and Camryn knocked it down. So cute. Then she tried to build a castle on her own. She packed the bucket with sand and went to flip it just how dad did it. Well, she flipped it toward her. I wish I had a picture but she dumped it all on her face and sand went everywhere. PRICELESS!! After our beach morning we all went back to the room and got ready to head to Charleston for lunch and some shopping. We went to Wild Wing Cafe for lunch. It was a great sports bar downtown and right across the street from the City Market. After lunch we walked through the market. If you have never been to the City Market you couldn't imagine how big the place was. Once we finally made it through we decided to head back to the beach. We stopped by and enjoyed some milkshakes at Chick-fil-a on our way back. For dinner the boys walked to a local pizza place to pick up pizzas while us girls went to the beach to find seashells. After dinner was bedtime for Camryn while the rest of us decided to play cards. The game was Texas Hold-em. The boys talked a big talk but the first two out were of course Mike and Chris. It was a lot of fun!! Once cards were over the night ended.

Sunday was leaving day. We all packed up and headed out. We stopped at breakfast at McDonald's on our way out of town. For lunch Mike and I tried finding restaurants in Lumberton using the Garmen. Well...my Garmen hasn't been updated in years, so we ended up in Downtown Historic Lumberton where all the restaurants were out of business. Finally we found I-95 again and eventually we found Friendly's (which was very good). Once we got back and picked up Trapper we headed over to our neighbor's house (Chris and Ericka Beckler) for a Bon Voyage party. Sadly they are leaving for Shelby, NC. We had fun at their house, but we are hating that we are losing them.

Chris, Mandy, and Camryn we had such a blast and we miss you guys already. We need to get together more often!!