Well they said it was inevitable, and it seems the situation we couldn’t imagine has arrived. We have actually spent over a week without having to fix something on the boat! Of course I’ve probably just jinxed it. And I have no doubt that needed repairs are still in our future (its a boat for goodness sake), but for 7 blessed days the maintenance log book has not been opened.
We spent Thanksgiving in Georgetown, SC. Derek volunteered to help set up tables and the buffet at a restaurant in town which served 1000 free meals as a food ministry. They gave him 2 dinners to bring back to the boat. It was a true southern feast…fried chicken, turkey, ham, collard greens, corn, mac n cheese, beans, sweet potatoes, stuffing, cranberry and mashed potatoes!!!! Georgetown was a great stop and made our I COULD LIVE HERE rating.
Next stop, Charleston. There is so much to do that we decided to stay a week. First and foremost…the restaurants! Derek was chatting with a couple (go figure, right?) who were varnishing the wood on their sailboat next to us. At some point in the conversation the fact that I’m a foodie came up. Then the fact that the man won Top Chef (on TV season 14) came up! He is Jamie Lynch and owns 2 restaurants in town, Tempest and Church & Union. So we had to go and the meal did not disappoint. I included a pic because the restaurant Church & Union is as stunning as the food.
Secondly…the shopping! I was in heaven. I had to leave Derek on the boat for a day while I wandered around the historic downtown area and the hundreds of little shops there. Derek doesn’t do browsing! I can spend 20 minutes just smelling candles on one display!!! There is a 4-city block area called The City Market that is like our craft fairs…so that required a repeat visit. Our credit card is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
The city is big and we are not used to the noise and traffic. The marina is big too. It takes 6 minutes at a fast walking pace to get to the laundry, showers and front gate from our slip. There are also separate codes on the doors of these facilities along with separate codes to the 2 gates to take Tater to a poop area off the docks. Well it never fails that Derek will get almost to the gate and not have the slip of paper with all the codes on it. Back he comes mumbling and grumbling with a confused dog who just wants to take a crap. He gets the codes and heads out again. I am thinking of putting the codes on his arm with a Sharpie.
Charleston also has some awesome graveyards dating back to the 1700s. We walked around one listening to a podcast giving info on it. According to history, a 14-yr-old girl named Annabel is buried there. She was from a very wealthy family in Charleston, but was in love with a soldier that her father despised because he was a nobody. The father (a top ranking military man) had the soldier sent away to another posting to end the relationship. A year later the young girl died of disease. The soldier came back to Charleston to be at her funeral, but was not allowed entrance. The father was so adamant that the soldier not be near his dead daughter that he bought 6 graves for his daughter so the soldier would not know which graveside to visit. The soldier was Edgar Allan Poe and his poem Annabel Lee was written for her! We never found her gravestone, but most from the early 1800s are worn down and hard to read. Poe went on to marry his first cousin, 13-yr-old Virginia Eliza, when he was 27. Hmmmm.
We will be heading home in about 2 weeks. I need my grand baby fix. Please keep us in your prayers.
Love to all
We spent Thanksgiving in Georgetown, SC. Derek volunteered to help set up tables and the buffet at a restaurant in town which served 1000 free meals as a food ministry. They gave him 2 dinners to bring back to the boat. It was a true southern feast…fried chicken, turkey, ham, collard greens, corn, mac n cheese, beans, sweet potatoes, stuffing, cranberry and mashed potatoes!!!! Georgetown was a great stop and made our I COULD LIVE HERE rating.
Next stop, Charleston. There is so much to do that we decided to stay a week. First and foremost…the restaurants! Derek was chatting with a couple (go figure, right?) who were varnishing the wood on their sailboat next to us. At some point in the conversation the fact that I’m a foodie came up. Then the fact that the man won Top Chef (on TV season 14) came up! He is Jamie Lynch and owns 2 restaurants in town, Tempest and Church & Union. So we had to go and the meal did not disappoint. I included a pic because the restaurant Church & Union is as stunning as the food.
Secondly…the shopping! I was in heaven. I had to leave Derek on the boat for a day while I wandered around the historic downtown area and the hundreds of little shops there. Derek doesn’t do browsing! I can spend 20 minutes just smelling candles on one display!!! There is a 4-city block area called The City Market that is like our craft fairs…so that required a repeat visit. Our credit card is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
The city is big and we are not used to the noise and traffic. The marina is big too. It takes 6 minutes at a fast walking pace to get to the laundry, showers and front gate from our slip. There are also separate codes on the doors of these facilities along with separate codes to the 2 gates to take Tater to a poop area off the docks. Well it never fails that Derek will get almost to the gate and not have the slip of paper with all the codes on it. Back he comes mumbling and grumbling with a confused dog who just wants to take a crap. He gets the codes and heads out again. I am thinking of putting the codes on his arm with a Sharpie.
Charleston also has some awesome graveyards dating back to the 1700s. We walked around one listening to a podcast giving info on it. According to history, a 14-yr-old girl named Annabel is buried there. She was from a very wealthy family in Charleston, but was in love with a soldier that her father despised because he was a nobody. The father (a top ranking military man) had the soldier sent away to another posting to end the relationship. A year later the young girl died of disease. The soldier came back to Charleston to be at her funeral, but was not allowed entrance. The father was so adamant that the soldier not be near his dead daughter that he bought 6 graves for his daughter so the soldier would not know which graveside to visit. The soldier was Edgar Allan Poe and his poem Annabel Lee was written for her! We never found her gravestone, but most from the early 1800s are worn down and hard to read. Poe went on to marry his first cousin, 13-yr-old Virginia Eliza, when he was 27. Hmmmm.
We will be heading home in about 2 weeks. I need my grand baby fix. Please keep us in your prayers.
Love to all
Gourmet chocolatier
Thats not water in the background. Its a wall cloud coming in.
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Bought fresh shrimp straight off the boat
Look who FINALLY put on some makeup
Poogans Porch Restaurant
The Harborage at Ashley Marina
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Playing with my shells
my honey
Made from bottle caps
It is a love/hate relationship!
Church & Union Restaurant
Annabel is here somewhere
Tater and Gypsea not so sure what to make of this
Thanksgiving feast
A South Carolina moon
Chef Jamie Lynch
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