Friday, April 26, 2013

Touring Charleston, SC with Marilyn and Carl G.

Ellen and her girl friends from high school met for the weekend at the Hersey Resort. This was a very nice group of girls and it is fun to see them together again. This summer they have a 20 year reunion from high school. Jack and I have our 50th year reunion. It is all so hard to believe. I just not not see myself as that OLD.



It is wonderful when you like and get along with your daughter's in laws. We love this couple and met them in Charleston ,SC for fun as they drove north from FL to NJ. So we had two full days of touring. Dinner at Magnolia Rest. And SNOB. We did the city tour. Walked and shopped through the city market. Had a docent give us a tour of the Jewish Temple, and walked the streets. We spent one whole days at the Magnolia Plantation.






Crab salad








Carl is go to get a knee replacement next month. He walked with a cane. He was a very good sport. The weather was cold.



Magnolia Plantation


Slave houses. Two families duplex


Single slave house


Live oak trees





The owner planted acres of gardens. Or should I say he had the slaves play them. It was beautiful and we walked paths all over the place.
































There was bamboo over 30 feet high.






Bamboo











We took a boat tour in the rice patties fields. The plantation owners made fortunes from the farming of rice. It ended after the Civil War as there were no slaves to farm it.



Here is Abe's science fair project. Subject is , what is the prime age for a male, female to throw a football? The boy does love and always think about sports!


Friday with Shirley and a large group of Sea Pines women at the spring luncheon. Katherine Wall spoke about her 11 books that she wrote about the low country and Hilton Head. She was a good speaker and funny.
My friend Janet D does colored pencil drawings. Here are some of her art works. I could not believe how beautiful they were and done from pencils.









We had dinner at Thea H house. She served something my mother made all the time when we were growing up. jello with ice cream.
1 large package of jello, 4 cups of water. Mix together and then add 1 pint of ice cream. I think my mother let the jello get a little solid first and then added the ice cream.




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