more vacation photos

similar to our first day in charleston, we decided to just try and wing it, and see what the city had in store for us.  we stuffed our bellies with an enormous breakfast and figured we would first try to find the famous "rainbow row." we found a perfect place to street park (one perk of going in the off-season) and trekked along the water of one of charleston's most famous and exclusive waterfront neighborhoods.

check out our new summer home (i wish)!

we found some canons and statues and decided to have a photoshoot.

canon baller.

it was the perfect weather for lots of awkward selfies.

steve made a friend (unfortunately she's an inanimate object).

rainbow row!  porgy and bess anyone?

after we perused the fancy pirate bait homes we made the quick drive out to folly beach.  steve, or at least steve's feet, braved the ocean.  i passed.  despite the lovely sunshine in these pictures it really wasn't THAT warm.  and besides, the last time steve and i went in the ocean together i got blasted in the leg with a nice painful jellyfish.  actually i think technically it was a portuguese man-of-war, but either way it was poopbutts and i wanted nothing to do with that.

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folly beach was such a funny little resort town.  it reminded me a bit of my favorite place in the world (maybe), the florida keys.  it officially felt like spring break, though, once we played by the ocean!

at the end of the day we drove out to the national monument of fort sumpter.  we didn't take the boat all the way out to the island, but the view from the little peninsula at the national monument was incredible.  we got a great vantage point for a picture in front of the john c. ravenal bridge.  unfortunately we both look constipated because the sun was pretty extreme in our eyes.  ah well c'est la vie!

in an unpictured highlight we also saw a dolphin bobbing up for air out by the national monument.  i couldn't get a snapshot of him, sadly, but it was a great cherry on top of a perfect day!