Charleston or BUST

A couple weeks ago, Lindsay and I met up in Charleston, South Carolina for a girls weekend. We hadn't seen each other in person for 3.5 years! She was my last roommate before I got married and we lived in a fantastic apartment in Bloomington, MN.

So it is a no-brainer that I was SO EXCITED for this trip and to finally see her and hang out like we used to! So much has happened since we were roommates: I got engaged, married, moved away to Ohio, got divorced, moved to Texas, etc. She got engaged, married and now has a 2-year-old son. Crazy stuff - and all in only 8 years time!

Anyway, on to our reunion trip.....here's the big cool bridge that we saw over and over throughout our 4 days in Charleston....

It was pretty cool - and I have better pictures of it in the post about our tour of an aircraft carrier. If you are scared of bridges, definitely don't go to Charleston - they are all over the place!

As soon as we got there, we saw exactly what I pictured Charleston to be like. Look at this beautiful house!

The palmetto trees, the architecture, the colors - I couldn't get enough. It was just magnificent.

Here's the view of the building above at night....

Charleston's look-and-feel was exactly what I was hoping it would be - romantic, slow-paced, beautiful.....

The mansions were out of a movie!

I know I want to go back there again - it's just one of those places. I knew right away that I would be a repeat visitor! (Although with as much humidity as they have, I probably wouldn't go in May again - maybe March or October)

I love all of the balconies!

This street is called "Rainbow Row" because all of the connected houses are different colors.

And they have horse carriage tours that take you all over downtown and tell you about the history of everything. I wanted to do one at night, but they said that they don't do them after dark because the headlights are hard on the horses' eyes. Ha - never thought of that!

I thought this building was stunning - I don't know what it is (a church?), but it's beautiful!

And because everything was so "suthun", I just HAD to get this t-shirt! Although I do wish it would say "Well I do Declah!".

Check out this fancy pants doorway.....

We wanted to sneak in, but we forgot our big southern lady hats at home. Damn!

This looks SO different than where I'm from in the north!

We stayed at a hotel right in the best location - in the heart of downtown Charleston. It wasn't the nicest place, but you really could NOT beat the location. We were right near the markets, museums, shops, everything.

I saw this sign on a bathroom in a candy store downtown - I thought it was humorous.......

And here's the library - looks grand, huh?

More Charleston tomorrow...........