Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Spring Break Trip - Beach, Aquarium, and a Plantation

The next morning we started the day at the Charleston Aquarium, which is a beautiful place. Here are the boys at the entrance

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Grady being goofy with the lemurs. You could pop your head up into their exhibit. The aquarium has a huge Madagascar exhibit now.

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The Madagascar exhibit was very hands-on. There was even a baby/toddler play area!

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Anson loved the huge tank, especially seeing the divers clean it. The divers played around with him a bunch since the place was nearly empty when we got there.

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There was a great touch tank

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There was also a fun fishing boat play area


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Cami really wanted to sit in the rocker

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On the big turtle


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How cute that G is helping C? Don't mind her soggy bum. She had just sat in a puddle.


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He's feeding a sting ray! We've never done this before!


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This is his excited face. Check out the pretty bridge in the background. And there were tons of dolphin in the water right there!

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Anson is SO big!


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That afternoon we headed to the beach

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Enjoying their mocktails from the beach bar

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Super yummy, fun dinner outside at the Lettered Olive

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The next morning we were back on the beach

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In the big chair!

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After a fun lunch at the Pavillion and a nap, we headed over to Mount Pleasant to go to Boone Hall, a beautiful plantation. It was a lof of fun for everyone!


Grady, with the main house

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In front of one of the many slave buildings

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Cami was there too!

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They got to sit on some cool tractors

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Grady in the gardens - lots of poppies!

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Who needs a playground when you have a huge live oak?

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That evening we ate at Vickery's, a seafood restaurant right on Murrell's Inlet, on Mount Pleasant. The boys shared a big piece of chocolate cake for dessert!

More to come...































Monday, April 15, 2013

Spring Break Trip - Arrival and Easter

We headed to Isle of Palms, SC for Spring Break this year. It was nice because it is a fairly quick drive, and the kids did very well in the car. When we arrived, the weather was beautiful, so we dropped our things at the house and headed to the beach!

Camille, on the road

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Eric and the kids with our house! It was just a couple houses from the beach, with an ocean view.

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Camille enjoyed it right away!

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We were going to eat at the Pavillion, but there was a wedding going on! So we got sandwiches at the deli and ate at our house.

Our view towards the ocean. Good night beach!

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The next morning we found that the Easter Bunny had found us at the beach house!


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Happy girl!

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Checking out his kite!

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This little bunny had a great Easter!

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Anson loved these trucks!

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Big smiles!

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We headed out for an Easter Egg Hunt on the lawn. Grady was with Eric on the other lawn (6 and up was separate). It drizzled a little but didn't really matter to the kids!


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Camille found about 7-8 eggs and put them in her basket all by herself!

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She also loved the bunny and followed him around hugging him


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When we got home she went right to work on the pots and pans!

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Then we headed back out to brunch at the new restaurant in Wild Dunes, The Lettered Olive.

Waiting to go inside

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The amazing dessert table! All made by the chef there!

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The kids were so good and loved the food, especially dessert! They were the littles kids there and got lots of attention!

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A well-deserved cookie. She ate a lot of eggs and fruit!

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Grady!

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It was getting warmer and sunnier so we headed to the beach for a bit

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After nap time we made the 20 minute drive into Charleston to check out the Battery. The weather was beautiful for walking around!

We waded in a gorgeous fountain


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They all checked out the canons (the boys had wandered away with Eric)

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Beautiful Charleston in the evening

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Grady and a statue

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We loved checking out Charleston and seeing lots of things with "Anson" on them (it is a big name there!). We had dinner at a fun barbecue place on King Street and called it a night.

Lots more trip pictures to come!



















Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Bunny Brunch

The weekend before we went away to the beach for Easter, we attended the Bunny Brunch at the Children's Museum. The kids were all in great moods and really had so much fun. There were lots of events after we ate, including crafts, live bunnies to pat, story time, and an egg hunt. The Easter Bunny was also there, of course!

Magma and the kids at brunch

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Camille and "Grandma Betty" (the storyteller)

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Camille ate tons of scrambled eggs!

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See how well the boys are listening during story time?

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Hugging Grandma Betty

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Holding a bunny!

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