My Vacay 2016 Summer

My Vacation

        Before school started, my family and I went to Charleston, South Carolina with my cousins, uncle, and aunt. We stayed in a cabin-like place near the beach. Plus, all the little crabs we saw at the plantation there. And  the amazingly big Angel Oak was just astounding! It was so fun! I wish we didn't have to go home. And the amazingly big Angel Oak was just astounding!

The Drive

       I'd say it was about six or seven hour drive not including stops. We had to go through a couple other states ,but me and my brother either slept or played on our devices pretty much the entire time. (>U<) Unless we were at Zaxby's.  And once we arrived at South Carolina it was absolutely amazing! We saw a bunch of houses on the edge of one long river. We also saw and went over Ravenal Bridge!(I always We only went to a group of stores though to meet up with the others. We got basic things like snacks and a Frisbee.

      

The Hotel

        When we got to the hotel we unpacked and played with our cousins : Chloe, Jared, Rebekah and Connor. That was really fun. Later Rebekah, Chloe, and I decided to walk to the end of the 'street' and go back, but we kept going back and forth because Chloe wanted to go somewhere else than Bekah did. Eventually, we got back and had lunch. (Hot dogs! Yum!) Then we played a game we made up. Blind Man's Hide and Seek. It's exactly what it sounds like; the person who is "it" has to close their eyes and try to find the people who are hiding merely by hearing and touch. I think Jared cheated though.

The Beach

         After we got settled in we went to the beach and played in the sandbar.(I can't swim well) (0~0) we had a great time and we even saw a couple ghost grabs. My brother and I both got pinched. At least they were small. (It still hurt though) After a couple days we started going to a different beach, Folly Beach, to collect shell. Though, later the water was so high the whole beach was covered! One time we saw a starfish; then another time we saw a jellyfish, and the last time I found(and kept) a red starfish arm. It was really squishy and weird at first, but then it dried up. When my dad did come the last time he was trying to catch sand fleas, but he couldn't quite get them because  they were so fast!

The Plantation

             The South Carolina Plantation was such a blast. I mean the slaves' cabin was such an eye opener on the average slave's life. And there was even an actual descendant of a slave. (Her grandma was a slave) We got to sing songs and have a lot of fun. After that, we went on a kind of large truck thing (xD) and got to ride around the farm. I saw a dead snake on the path and I think it was a rattlesnake or something. But anyway, we also learned that part of The Notebook was filmed there. I'll probably never see that movie. Afterwards we went to the mansion that was there and looked around. I wanted to wait to go there because I was really hungry. Other than that, it was amazing! The piano in there was worth more than the house I live in by a long shot!

                                     

Charleston

            Then we went to Charleston! We got rock candy, chocolate, and a bunch of other junk food that we didn't need. Then we went to a horse ride place and got a tour of the town. Afterwards, we went to a confederate museum (>~<) and looked around. Connor and I kept making bad jokes and puns about the stuff around us. Andrew(my brother) got mad at us.Going to South Carolina was really fun maybe one day we can go back. Or somewhere even more fun!

                                 Comment the place where you had your best vacation!