Eating Our Way Through Charleston

We’ve been visiting a bunch of places in and around Charleston, SC recently. We have been to several forts, visited special trees, had delicious ice tea and ice cream, relaxed on the beach, ate Cajun food, spent time with old friends and made new ones. Jack and I divided up our recent activities and each took a few of our favorites to focus on.

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One of my favorites was the Angel Oak Tree. It’s branches stretched up and down like giant tentacles, it was huge! It would have taken at least seven people to encircle its trunk and three for some of the larger branches! There were also a lot of silly rules, like “don’t put your coat on or near the tree” and “backpacks are not welcome around the roots.” With all the weird rules they had, they might as well have said “shadows are not permitted to touch the tree!” Despite all the funny rules we still managed to have a good time looking around at the tree. I found a large ant dragging a dead spider with the help of its friends.

Another exciting thing we did was attend the Cajun Festival that happened to be going on in the county park while we were camping there. At the festival there was a reptile talk and we had brought chairs so we sat down and listened. The woman who was giving the talk had brought two turtles and a baby alligator for us to learn about. At the end she let the little kids pet them with two fingers or in some of the smaller kid’s minds with their whole hand which, to be fair, their hands were about the same size as the older kid’s two fingers. While we were at the Cajun festival, not so surprisingly, I didn’t have any Cajun food even though Daddy offered me some of his alligator hot dog. There was also fish and breaded shrimp but instead I bought ice cream that looked like fried chicken. Mommy really liked it too, so I gave her half and we enjoyed it even more than we would have if it hadn’t been a really hot day.

A few days before the festival we had some really good pineapple from a pineapple whip food truck on Folly Beach. Their biggest serving was served in a half a pineapple, we didn’t get that though. It was still really good and reminded Jack and me of the Dolewhip we used to have in Hawaii. We had a great time at the Cajun fest and in Charleston in general, it was a great visit!