Monday, April 11, 2011

Charleston

Saturday after Emmie M's departure we headed to Charleston for an airshow.  The kiddos napped on the way down which was nice.  It was a rather hot day at home, but when we arrived in Charleston it was quite a bit cooler.   As we drove into town Josh and I saw the Thunderbirds fly over, just finishing the show.

We checked into the hotel and settled in.  Jack and Ewan were extremely full of energy so we found a park.  They had a great time playing, but were still full of it!  It was getting rather cool and we only had shorts!  We headed out to find a place for dinner.  Thanks to modern technology we found a place nearby with good seafood (as per reviews we found on yelp on my phone)....gps got us there....and it was out of business!  So we drove around a little to find something else and Sean started screaming.  Finally we got desperate and stopped at the next place we saw.  Turned out to be a great new place, grand opening isn't even until later this week.  We had a lovely seafood platter.

Got back to the hotel and settled in again.  We made everyone's beds (Sean in pack n play and big boys sharing the sleeper sofa).  FINALLY the boys went to sleep and we got on the internet.  We were checking the schedule for the airshow to plan the day...............turns out the airshow was Satuday only.  That's right, we missed it!!!!!!!!!!  I KNOW I CHECKED THE SCHEDULE AND IT SAID SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.  I knew we couldn't go Saturday since Emmie M was leaving that morning.  We'll never know what happened....we just missed it somehow.  Josh will tell this story the rest of our lives I'm sure!

After breakfast Sunday (mind you Sean was up a 5:45 already, big boys not much later) we packed up and headed out.  We stopped at Target to get the boys some swim trunks since we didn't pack them.  Then it was off to town.  We parked and took the trolley in which Jack and Ewan LOVED!  We walked down to the waterfront park and the boys tried to strip right away to play in the fountain.  We informed them they would have to wait, it was still a little chilly out.  After walking around and having fun it was time to eat.

Lunch was an adventure to say the least.  We wound up at Bubba Gump since Jestine's had a HUGE line.  As soon as we got there I took to the bathroom to change his diaper...when I returned I immediately had to take Ewan potty, Jack said he didn't need to go.  Well when I got back Jack decided he had to go.  So three bathroom trips later I FINALLY got to sit down and sip some iced tea and look at the menu!  We  sat outside and enjoyed ourselves.  The boys were still full of energy to keeping them entertained was tricky.  Luckily there were some kiddo tables and toys there to help out!  It was a long meal....MANY more potty trips and another diaper change, bottle feeding.....  Changed the boys into their trunks and headed back to the waterfront.

We got back to the park and the fountain was turned off.  WHY???  How dare they!!  Luckily there was another fountain at the park and the boys were off!  They had a BLAST!!  The could have played forever.  Jack pitched a fit when it was time to go.  The water was cold but somehow they didnt' care, didn't even shiver at all!!

Then it was back to the trolley and drive home.  Quite a long weekend!  The boys had tons of fun, Mom and Dad not so much.  It was fun watching them enjoy themselves though...just not fun keeping them out of trouble and entertained.

Here are a few pics...we took a couple hundred!!!




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