Today we woke up in North Carolina and went to bed in South Carolina. It was good to sleep in! We left the Smithfield KOA and its bath-water pool about mid-morinng. We drove for a couple of hours until we
got to South of the Border, a rundown tourist trap that looked pretty deserted.We stopped for lunch at a park in a small town called Dillon, SC. At the park, there was a bouncy balance beam. Two people got on the beam and tried to bounce the other person off. Mom even bounced Dad off once! After that, we drove another two hours surrounded by corn and tobacco fields. We even saw a skinnery.
Then we went to Hampton Plantation State Park. To get to the plantation, we had to go down a long, narrow, sandy and bumpy road. Mom almost had a heart attack! The plantation was an old rice plantation owned by the Pinckney and Rutledge families. Dad says a Pinckney signed the Constitution and Rutledge was Chief Justice of the
United States. The house was a big plantation mansion and there was creepy looking Spanish moss hanging from the trees. We got to play with old colonial toys on the veranda and saw a huge oak tree that George Washington saved when he visited the plantation in 1791 by convincing the owner not to cut it down. It was hot and I can't imagine what it was like to be a slave there.
United States. The house was a big plantation mansion and there was creepy looking Spanish moss hanging from the trees. We got to play with old colonial toys on the veranda and saw a huge oak tree that George Washington saved when he visited the plantation in 1791 by convincing the owner not to cut it down. It was hot and I can't imagine what it was like to be a slave there.After an hour of driving, we arrived in Mount Pleasant and ate dinner in an air-conditioned Fridays. Even though it is called Mount Pleasant, it seemed pretty flat. They called this part of South Carolina the Lowcountry. Next we went to see Mrs. Stone's change ringing group at an Episcopal church in downtown Charleston. Change ringing is when a bunch of people stand in a circle and take turns ringing bells to form a melody. Mrs. Stone even took us up to the bell tower. The bells were really, really loud.
The Stones are a family who we know from school. They moved down to Sullivans Island in South Carolina three years ago. Sullivans Island is a barrier island east of Charleston. Maryrose is my age and Nathaniel & Theodore are Matty's age. The Stones have four cats and three dogs. After parking in their driveway and hooking up the electric, we had ice cream cones and went to bed.
Happy Anniversary Grandma & PopPop!
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