Tuesday, April 24, 2007

How We Spent Our Weekend



After BUYING OUR WASHER AND DRYER!!! Saturday morning, we ate lunch at McAllisters. I'd never been there before, but I loved it and definatley want to go back. We both got Texas Sized Spuds (large baked potato) and it was wonderful! They also have very good, very large cookies. After lunch, we headed down to Charleston. We parked at the visitors center and spent several hours walking around downtown. We went to the farmers market at Marion Square, went in some local shops, and enjoyed ice cream at Marble Slab. After walking for a few hours, we decided to drive around for a bit.




We found several cool old cemeteries. One offered beautiful views of the Cooper River Bridge. We drove through an area called Hampton Park and stopped at a nice waterfront park called Brittlebank Park. There is a dock, lots of open green space, and it is right on the Ashley River. This is where we wound up parking to go to the Riverdogs game. It is right beside the stadium. As we walked to the stadium, I found my 2nd bookcrossing book! It's a Red Hat Society book. It's not really what I like to read, but still cool to find it. I will probably just leave it somewhere for someone who will like it more.



There was a t-shirt giveaway at the game, so we both got free t-shirts. This also meant the game was very crowded. The Riverdogs took on the Savannah Sand Gnats in what had to be one of the most boring games I've been to. The field umpire was really not on top of his game and the guy behind us liked to let him know that.



Sunday we went to Wannamaker Park, which is actually less than 8 miles from our house. Swimming in the water, we sae these beautiful geese and goslings. There were 7 goslings in all, I believe. After seeing them, we found the Wannamaker Park letterbox.



As we were walking back to the path, we saw that the geese and goslings had came on shore. We were very quiet and they allowed us to get quite close to them. As we were leaving, some noisy people came by on bicycles and they quickly fled to the water. We continued on to find one more box in the park. After that, we were very hungry and had a a bite to eat before continuing on to find You out your hand where!? letterbox. We headed home after this. Overall, it was a wonderful weekend getting to know our area better!

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