Georgia Visitors

Thursday found us with two visitors arriving from Georgia- Darren's mother Karen (on right in picture) and her friend Karen Powell (pictured, left, and whom we'll call KP). They'd never seen Darren's store or the apartment, so we got to show them all the new places we spend most of our time. We all drove around together and showed KP the places Grandma Hilda (Darren's grandmother and Karen's mother) used to live.


We also took them to Colonial Dorchester Historic Site. It's so close by and it seemed silly to pass by this beautiful place without showing it to them. Thursday night, we all went to my new favorite place to eat, McAllister's. Karen asked how they made the potatoes so big and one of the guys finally told us. I was a little disappointed, so I'm not going to tell you how they do it.

I spent most of Friday with Karen and KP while Darren was at work.


Friday was our cat H2's birthday. We aren't really sure when her birthday is. We decided it was June 8, but then we forgot about it, so we moved it to June 15. Anyhow, H2 had gotten worms, so we started out Friday by taking her to the vet to get a pill to rid her of the worms. Some, birthday, huh?


We then headed off to the market in downtown Charleston. The market is a wonderful little shopping area that is actually in the old slave market. Vendors set up selling a wide variety of things from t-shirts, to homeade jams, to jewelry, to crafts, and more. Ladies are sitting near the entrance of each of the buildings making and selling the beautiful sweetgrass baskets. Near one end of the market was one of the Turtles on the Town. Someone has broken both of his feet off, which really bothers me. People don't really respect the art that someone has spent so much time on. Anyhow, while we were in the market, a downpour came, so we had to forgo our plans to hit Folly Beach. Instead, we headed home and went out to Sticky Fingers.


By the time dinner was over, the rain had slacked up. So, we headed to beautiful Azalea Park, which is in the heart of downtown Summerville. The park is full of beautiful flowers and sculptures. Here are a few of the beautiful things we saw at Azalea Park:






Karen and KP headed home Saturday morning. It was great to see them.

Sunday, we again headed over to Colonial Dorchester. This time, it was to see some of our friends from Georgia, Eli and Aubrey. Their new baby, Elsa, is beautiful. It was the first time we'd seen her. Satchel, their son, is getting so big. He was sleeping in the car, but we peeked in and saw him. Some of Eli's family was there as well. They live on John's Island. It's nice for us because that means we get to see Eli and Aubrey more. (plus our letterboxes get finders since Eli and Aubrey and some of Eli's family are letterboxers). It was really nice to be able to see so many GA faces these past few days :)