Edisto Island


Song Happy by Pharrell Williams

We spent a week with my family at Edisto Island, South Carolina. This is my family's favorite place to go on a beach vacation. It is pretty much paradise. This is my family's fourth time going and I am sure it will not be the last. I know it is not my last time going. I have talked to Lyndon about how wonderful Edisto Island is ever since we met. He has been dying to go and see what all the fuss is about. He said it lived up to the hype (yay!).

We spent the week relaxing on the beach looking for shark teeth. Just between me and Lyndon we found 16 and a couple of other fossils. We went crabbing, but for the first time ever did not catch any! My brother did catch a baby one, but it was to small to make a meal of. We went down to the marina to see the sunset and saw several dolphins! Cosette asked to be buried in sand. We visited the local serpentarium and saw all sorts of reptiles which has sparked a love of crocodiles in Cosette. We walked along a natural beach at Botany Bay. We spent a day in Charleston which made Lyndon fall head over heels in love with the South. We played games at the beach house, mostly Apples to Apples (tradition!). Lyndon and I snuck out again to Charleston with Henry and had an evening walking around the battery and eating at Hyman's Seafood. It was voted best seafood in the south by Southern Living Magazine. Southern Living was right, best seafood ever! At each seat it had a little plaque with a celebrity who had eaten in that spot. Henry sat where Neil Diamond ate. As we drove around the island we saw tons of spanish moss hanging from the trees. It is so different from anything I have ever seen. We loved Edisto! 

It was a special treat to be with all the Dunn clan (minus Sam, who we missed a lot). We are all starting to spread out and go our separate ways. Cosette had a lot of fun playing with her aunts, uncles, grandpa and grandma. It was a great week.

Comments

  1. Kingsley2 July 2014 at 20:56

    How do you do these videos?! So cute!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Christine Plothow4 July 2014 at 03:42

      Elena, I do them on my iphone 5S. It is really easy to do with imovie.

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Traveling Half Way around the World

Image
We made it to Manila! We flew over the US and the Pacific Ocean to get here. Our total travel time was 55 hours. It was long but surprisingly not bad at all. Cosette was an angel and the Haneda Airport in Tokyo was like a hotel. If those two things had been any different attitude in writing would not be so positive. This odessy of a journey begun way before our first flight. Packing up our apartment for our subletters took a lot longer than we supposed it would. So instead of being refreshed and ready for the long trip over we were tried and I did not want to get out of bed. We got enough sleep to keep on going till our flight from NYC to San Fransicso where we tried to rest. That flight for me was the worst. Cosette did sleep but was up for a lot of it. The plane was cramped and Lyndon and I were seperated by the aile. Thankgoodness for kind and patient people who sat next to us. Playing at the San Fransico airport.   Our flight to Japan was awesome. We had a
Read more

Remote Learning Part 1

Image
Remote learning is over for now, thank goodness. We have been doing remote learning since March 20. We are experts at google classroom, zoom meetings, and google meets. It's been rough, but we did it!  This post is long and detailed about what each kid had to do everyday for school. It was intense. The kids did wonderfully. Their teachers are amazing! They worked around the clock to learn all the new technology, meeting with students individually. I received personal phone calls from them asking what they could do to help and also talking to my kids. I am so grateful for the teachers they had this year.  All three kids participated in remote learning. Each grade/teacher did something different. What they all had to do was answer and attendance question by noon, read for thirty minutes a day, and I-ready (an assessment program that helped determine where they were in math and reading).  Third Grade: Cosette's assignments were what she was doing in school. She completed two huge
Read more

Valentine's Day

Image
Happy Valentine's Day! This has become one of my favorite holidays in the last few years. This year especially I am really into it. It probably has to do with my sweet Lyndon who proposed to me on V-Day four years ago. Since then he has made Valentine's Day a fun and special day. He always surprises me with something fun. Usually we go eat some where fabulous and go see a ballet or opera. He likes to do something cultural on this speical day. This year I am getting into the spirit more. Cosette can do a lot more things. We made special Valentine's for our families and made yummy cookies. She kept sneaking cookie dough and eating it. She is my daughter.  The finished product waiting for Lyndon. I went to the Cake Boss Bakery last year to get Lyndon something for V-day and was inspired to make the dark chocolate bowls filled with chocolate covered strawberries. It was a lot easier that I anticipated. Oh, and that cloth on the table are the pajama pants
Read more