Third day of vacation May 24, 2010

For those of you who are smart , you may just know where we are headed today!

Our third day of vacation and now we are in Charleston , SC. Zephir and I (Minkey) love the fountains! The day started of sunny and very windy!
We love the pale colored homes and the cool fences and gingerbread type spindles. (Since we live at spindlecottage it is a sinch we would love this home above!).
I thought this fence was intriguing---
We decided to visit a few churches since Charleston is known for its many beautiful ones!
Going through the inner door
Pretty nice!
Then we thought--lets look at a bit of the College of Charleston (actually we were walking along and ran into it!) Here is a nice entry to it.




Then we saw this Episcopal church below that is being repaired. There are a lot of Episcopal churches in Charleston.






We thought we would check out another church; this time a Catholic one.

Love the inside of this one---quite awesome.


It is funny how dark it is on the outside and how light it is on the inside!!
Above is the Rutledge house where you can rent a room.

Love Charleston's little alleys.


We ate lunch at Magnolias on East Bay street.

We ended the meal with espresso and creme bruille (spelling/?)
Notice the cruise ship peaking out at the end of the street!

See more of the cruise ship at the end of this street! (no we are not on the cruise).

This pink dog made me happy---one may see this on a pink saturday post soon!
Don't you love the contrast of all the pink with the green umbrella? Doesn't this make you very happy????? We got caught in the rain without our umbrellas!! Nannykim got drenched and had to run barefoot through Charleston---fun however!!
We stopped a moment under the awning here to get out of the downpour.

Day two May 23 2010 of vacation getaway

We had a lovely second day on our getaway Here you see Minkey (me) and Zephir relaxing at Sullivan's Island (please excuse my spelling in this post---I am a monkey and never learned how to spell). In the distance you see a cruise ship in Charleston's harbor.
But I digress. The day started with a broken coffee maker! So nannykim, our servant, had to boil the water and pour it on top of the filter---worked grand, I must say!

The back yard of this rental property is grand for us monkeys. There are birds, owls, and fig trees......but bestessssss of all is what you see below
Above this garage and in the tree is a platform---monkeys love climbing you know!
Since the 23rd was a Sunday we all went to St. Andrews in Mount Pleasant. They have just left the Episcopal church and are now Anglican. It was a nice quiet early morning service .
After church we went ten minutes over to Sullivan's Island where Ft. Moultrie is......it is right on the beach.

Of course Zephir and I, Minkey, the soft spoken one, had to get pics of our backpacking capablities.


There were lots of cannons for us monkeys to play on but this here ball was the best!
We discovered it was a Mine!! We are very explosive monkeys who live dangerously at times!

When Nannykim saw the above jetty, she said it reminded her of her beach days in Connecticut and the days of crabbing!
We got a nice view of Charleston from Sullivan's Island. You can see the curch steeples and a cruise ship to the right.
Got a nice view of the Charleston bridge too.
The above is a pic of Ft. Moultrie from the beach.

Thre were some fiddler crabs which all scurried away----there were hundreds, but we didn't get the pic......they were afraid of us monkeys!
Zephir and I just luv the warm sun, and old things that wash up on the beach. We are not sure what this thing we are on is!!!
Fort Sumter is behind us in this picture. This is where the civil war began.....it is opposite Fr. Moultrie and quite close really!! We thought we should start a fight.....but we were too happy.

There were some nice homes right on the beach.

Next we went to Mepkin Abby at Monck's Corner. Beautiful trees here
We took a little tour--below is the library there with over 50,000 books.
There is a cemetary where some of the monks are buried.



The steps in the grass in the distance are where the former owner used to mount her horse. She donated this land to the monks in the 40's after her daughter was killed in an accident.

We purchased a nice pottery mug and books at the gift shop.......so guess what we did the rest of the evening!!