Full Moon Waves

Took these pictures of the house yesterday...but obviously I had too many pictures yesterday anyways. So I just waited 'til today to show y'all.

See that big white van? That's ours. Yup, we're officially a big homeschool family now.

Dolphin Watch. The awesome thing is you actually can watch the dolphins from our house!

Our house is kind of in an inlet of sorts...so basically no waves. Which is great 'cause there are a few kids that don't really swim well.  On the other hand there are a few of us who do swim well. So we drove a few miles down the road to this beach instead.

Yes, the waves were much better here...but I'm still laughing at the fact that we're in a beach house--on the beach--and we still drove to the beach down the road.

There was also a full moon a couple days ago so some of the other swimmers there were saying that made the waves bigger...it actually doesn't make that much difference. But still full moon waves sounds cool.

We Only Look Dangerous

Probably my least favorite day of a beach vacation...the one where we actually have to go out and do stuff. Don't get me wrong, I would normally love doing all this stuff. But seriously, I could have been sitting on the beach doing nothing. But instead we drove to Charleston and went to a few museums.

First we toured The Old Exchange Building and Provost Dungeon. I got a few pictures...but it was horrible lighting for picture taking. So I'll leave you with just this slightly blurry one. The architecture on the interior was actually pretty cool! Strangely, there weren't any cells since it was normally used as a store room. But when there were actually prisoners there they just roamed freely throughout the dungeon.

Old post office boxes

"Take a picture of my eye!"

We also toured The Old Slave Mart Museum. Very sad history. It was a small museum, but there was a lot of information. The building was actually a place where slaves used to be sold. Ugh, makes me sick that people actually treated other people like that. Well...I guess past tense isn't quite correct since it still is happening. Still makes me sick though.

Postcard picture?

The last place we visited was the Powder Magazine. And the pathway to get to this small, but really awesome, museum was kind of gorgeous. I also bought a rifle pen there. ...and proceeded to get ink all over my dress. No, I really mean all over my dress. So fun. But, I got a cool pen. And that's all that matters.

Oh, heck no...he looks way too happy.

Just pointin' firearms willy nilly all over the place... This isn't as dangerous as it looks.

 

Aaahhh! This thing is heavy!

Even mom decided to give it a try!

We need one of these at home for when the kids are misbehaving. That's it! To the stocks with you!

While in the stocks people would throw stuff at the victim...and sometimes cut off their ears!

Don't know what this is...didn't go in...but doesn't it look cool? I mean, come on, it says Pirates Courtyard.

The very cool exterior of a Charleston theater.

A cemetery we walked past. We were gonna stop in...but everyone was so tired that we just went back home.

We all stopped for an early dinner at McConkey's Jungle Shack. Seriously, McConkey's Jungle Shack. Isn't that the best name ever?

Ha, I just realized M (far left) it wearing my mom's sunglasses in this picture. This is why I don't tell people when I'm taking pictures of them. Usually it's because they look more natural for the picture...and then sometimes it's 'cause I end up with gems like this.

Remember how I got ink all over my dress from my awesome rifle pen? Yeah, it's still there in this picture even though you can't see it. I'm just sitting there eating like a savage (no really...there were napkins and condiments everywhere) and on top of that I've got pen on my dress. Hopefully there were low expectations being a shack and all...'cause I felt a wee bit uncivilized. (oh, and I did eventually get the pen out...but I had to wait 'til I got home to get it out...)

We were all pretty tired after walking around so much in the heat, but I went with M down to the beach and we watched the sunset. It. was. amazing. Seriously one of the best sunsets I've seen all summer. It comes pretty close to the one on the first day of camp...but this one might beat it. You should be so happy that the computer's taking forever to upload pictures so now you only get a few pictures of the sunset :p ...instead of 300...ish.

Beware the Crazed Deer

So this is what I woke up to. I'm sharing a room with my sister Catherine...and, well she's not always the neatest person. So I told her she absolutely had to make at least her side of the bed and couldn't just leave it all nasty looking all week long. Here, you can see that she did exactly what I told her to do...made just her side of the bed :p

There's this weird swamp thing on either side of the walkway to the beach. We're all wondering how deep the water really is...and what's lurking beneath it. Yeah, we watch too much Doctor Who

Here's our house from the back. It's a duplex and we're on the right side in this picture...The one with all the towels and stuff hanging everywhere. Hey, at least we used real suitcases and not Piggly Wiggly bags. There's actually Piggly Wiggly right down the road from our beach house too...

Love the messy bun? I may have slept on my hair for a few hours....

I'm glad my brother, M, volunteered to take pictures. But even he noticed I didn't feel that great 'cause he kept pointing out how unhappy I looked in most of the pictures :p Hopefully I look sort of decent in these...

I really missed this dress...it sat in my closet all summer 'cause the zipper was broken until last week.

"Don't you dare take my picture!" She's gonna kill me for this...but who cares :p I love this picture...and my mom!

Anyways, I don't really have any pictures of this, but I went with a long walk with my mom after the kids were all in bed. It was really awesome 'cause the bike trail we walked on was absolutely gorgeous in the moonlight! I haven't really had a chance to talk with my mom alone for a long time and it was so nice to be able to do that. I love spending time with her, but she just has so many other children it's hard to get any one-on-one time with her. 

We ended up walking almost the entire bike trail ...in the dark.  The trail goes through a forest of sorts and is filled with Spanish moss covered trees and lots of swamp-like areas. So in the dark it's really beautiful...but also a bit creepy. Anyways, we saw a bunch of deer ahead of us and they just kept moving up the bike trail a little bit until we caught up with them--and then they would just move again. But then the rest of the walk we kept jumping every time we heard a stick crack in the woods. Shoes in hand I was ready to smack any harmless creatures that dared come near us. People, deer are terrifying in the middle of the night. Especially when you've got nothing to defend yourself with except for a pair of white flip flops and a purple glowstick. Oh and the frogs sounded like goats...no kidding (see what I did there...) they really sound like goats.

Welp, that's it for today. Night y'all!