Day&Night

What a nice holiday weekend!  Fall, here we come!
Saturday was definitely our busiest day of the weekend and I'll recap it for ya.

I wanted to wear my favorite summery dress for the last time this year. 


blurry phone photo



We decided to stay close and visit the Charleston Museum.

Neither K nor I had been since we were very young and it was fun to see the museum with mature eyes. 

Highlights:  There was an old stone mile marker that was located on Mathis Ferry way back in the 1800's.  There is also a recreation of an old Charleston pharmacy with so many bottles like ours!

And there was a jewelry exhibition with some sweetgrass earrings that I fell in love with...

Some might say I have a mild sweetgrass obsession.

After this we went over to Whole Foods to grab some shish kebabs for the grill (I like the general tso's chicken) and beer. 

This beer deserves a background story.  About a year ago now we discovered Heavy Seas Loose Cannon.  We fell in love with it and would order it anytime we could find it on a menu (very few places in Chas).  Unfortunately the beer distributor that handles Loose Cannon sales was apparently flaky and thus Loose Cannon is no more.  If you ever see this on a menu, ORDER IT! and if you ever see it on a menu in Charleston, e-mail me and I will come join you STAT.  Anyway, after much research (hard work) we discovered that Mojo is the next best thing. 

From there we came home to relax before the game.  I whipped up a few "heart attack" apps and threw on a little team pride. We grilled up the kebabs, which K calls "Make Your Neighbors Jealous" kebabs.   They smell SO good.

Ah! Even more blurry



I was in bed pretty early after the game ended. 
Tell me about your weekend!

Gameday Treats (lazy girl edition)

I love cooking for my family and friends, but there are definitely days where I'm just too busy to spend the time in the kitchen!

No time to cook but still feeling festive?  Check out my grocery store finds.

While home cooking is ideal, these store bought treats can help you in a bind!


GO COCKS!
I did whip up a quick spread for our mini-gameday celebration:

A chili con queso dip, little pigs in a blanket, and a strawberry banana cool whip dip.
Hope everyone is enjoying their LONG weekend!

Idle Hands...

Let's do something different this weekend!
K and I have lived in Charleston our whole lives and yet there are always new things to do!  But why, then, do we seem to do the same things over and over?  Well, it's because we love them!
But this weekend we are branching out, trying something out of our routine.
A couple of options:
1. The Charleston Museum

I haven't been to the Charleston museum since I was very young.  They have an exhibit going on of Civil War era clothing.  This sounds really neat!  We could also walk across the street and visit the Manigault house, which I LOVE!

2. Bee City: (Cottageville, SC)

Oh boy, They have llamas at Bee City.

Okay, So I'm going to reveal a little nugget about myself.  When I was young I went away to summer camp.  Not cheerleader camp, band camp, or bible camp. No.  I went to Llama camp.  It's called Love-a-Llama, located in the Pisgah mountains.  Basically we fed, cleaned, walked the llamas around.  They are very sweet animals, relatives of the camel.  I love these creatures!

But, depending on the weather we may want to stay indoors.

3. Carolina Ice Palace

Let's skate!  Haven't been here in years either.  And it's always a great laugh!

What would you do??