Charleston blog #1

Wow! I have been a busy little person the last few weeks and have a TON of pics to upload. I also know that if I wait to write a lengthy update...it will never get done. So I will just update with a few pics and thoughts as I can. :-D You won't get to see all my lovely pics at once...but that might get old and boring. :-)




The weekend of April 7th Holli and I went to Charleston with my friend Kendra from work. Her church, Hampton Park Baptist, was having a singles retreat.





Smiley went too...and rather enjoyed himself. (okay, so I have a "strange" sense of humor on 1 hour of sleep, and have this really bad habit of personifying inanimate objects.) I guess I helped keep Holli awake by keeping her amused. ;-)


Well, we arrived late and so had to take the "leftovers" in our cabin, which meant 2 of us got the hide-a-bed couch to sleep on and 1 person got to share a room with a "stranger" ...so we did the friendly thing and decided to make our own 3 person "room" on the screened in porch. ;-) It was rather amuusing to watch the reactions from the other girls as we moved the couch out onto the porch. It really was not that heavy...especially compared to some of the 400 lb. + people we get called out to assist in EMS. ;-) One girl commented incredulously...

you can't move the couch onto the porch!

I am not sure if she was doubting our ability or if it had never occured to her to move furniture to suit her needs better. Nonetheless, we assured her it was a viable option and proceeded. Yep, lifting 70 lb. stretchers with 300 lb. patients can come in handy sometimes. :-)

After we arranged our makeshift room for the weekend we decided to take a walk around the park. (We were staying at the James Island County Park.) Kendra and I, being night shifters, were wide awake at this point...and proceeded to drag Holli along around the ENTIRE 1 mile + trail. There was a nice ocean breeze and it was a comfortable walk. Along our way we stopped by the boathouse and found this swing. Oh yeah, we also found signs that said it was illegal to

"feed or harrass the alligators."

ALLIGATORS!!!

Great! Here we are walking around in the dark, the path goes beside the lake/bay...how are we supposed to know where the alligators are?!?! But we didn't let that small fear deter us and stopped shoreside for this picture. ;-) (Notice the beady little eyes pearing through the darkness in the background. ;-) Ha, ha. After arriving safely back at our "room", we happened to read the rules for the campground.

Please refrain from walking around the park after dark.

Oops! :-) We were good the rest of the nights.