Drayton Hall

 Breakfast this morning was pastries from Evo Bakery. I had a bacon and cheese croissant and hot chocolate, Kurt a cherry turnover and cheese Danish. It was all great, nothing too exciting...


After breakfast we headed from Drayton Hall. It is a plantation house that has been preserved, not restored. It was really cool. There are no furnishings in the house. There are constantly doing maintenance to preserve the house but that is all. If there is a missing emblem, they don't replace it, they keep the house as it is. They were actually working on the house when we were there. There is also an ongoing archeological dig where there were buildings in the past. 
We took a tour of the house and then an audio tour of the grounds. I loved the house but unfortunately our tour guide was not so great. Oh well, the house was still amazing!
The small building to the left is the privy. Quite interesting - it was a seven seater privy... I guess they didn't care as much about privacy as we do these days.
Front of the house
Back of the house


Servants stairs

Ongoing preservation

After the house tour we wandered the grounds and half listened to the audio tour. I love their trees and the Spanish moss.


Found an alligator!



Leaving Drayton we took the long way back to the house on a pretty winding road. We ended up in Summerville at Swig & Swine for some lunch. I had the pulled pork, green beans with sausage, and mac and cheese. It was good, definitely hit the spot as we were getting quite hungry. Kurt had the brisket, sausage, beans, and mac and cheese. He agreed - not the greatest we've ever had but good.

We started to make to head for the house and Kurt asked if I thought we should have ice cream. Of course, I always think we should have ice cream so he found and ice cream shop for us to go to. We ended up at Ye Old Ice Cream and Sandwich Cafe. I had the Midnight pothole - not sure what was all in it but everything in was chocolate so it was great. After ice cream we headed back to the house and regretting ice cream after a big bbq meal...
It was a bit of a drive and through some interesting neighborhoods. When Kurt and I travel we almost always set the GPS to avoid highways. So much more interesting, although sometimes we end up places we don't necessarily want to be after dark. Good thing we are rarely out after dark...
Once at the house we relaxed for just a bit and headed back to Park Circle. Picked up pastry for breakfast and then walked around for a couple drinks. Stopped in at Wyrd Sisters brewing, Frothy Beard Brewing Company, and The Dig. Probably could have skipped the dig... Wyrd Sisters was a cute little place. It was converted from a little house so a couple different rooms you could sit in. Wasn't my favorite beer but it was good. Frothy Beard was more a bar, they had just one of their own beers on tip. They had a bunch of bands that night and a $20 cover so we just sat for one before the bands started. Stopped in at the Dig more because I had to go to the bathroom. Very busy bar/restaurant.
Walked back to house. Watching a movie (Thunder Bolts) and blogged. Early night for us as early morning tomorrow. Graduation day!!!!



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Magnolia Plantation

Image
  Chase had mentioned he hadn't been to a plantation yet and would like to go so we headed to Magnolia Plantation today.  Picked him up bright and early - around 8:00 am. He was ready to go even though he had only gotten up about 15 minutes before we got there. He said picked up that talent in boot camp. Started with breakfast at First Watch, Chase had heard from a couple people that it was really good. I had a BEC sandwich - bacon, egg, and cheddar with arulgula and garlic aioli. Kurt had biscuits and gravy with million dollar bacon. Chase had a carrot cake and pecan pancake (it was HUGE), and million dollar bacon. All was delicious - good breakfast! Chase got free coffee for his military service. After breakfast we made our way to Magnolia. We were surprised by the line on a Monday! We got there a little after 10:00 and the next house tour open wasn't until 2:00. At first we were disappointed but there was plenty to do. First we walked around in the Wildlife Center. A small ...
Read more

I hate American Airlines

Image
  Chase graduates A school Friday, July 25 so of course I am headed back to Charleston. Short solo trip as he gets to come home after graduation. He said he would prefer us to take time off when he is home so that is what Kurt is doing.  Flew out to Sioux Falls on Wednesday night, left early to give myself a little buffer in case there were any flight issues. Thankfully I did!!! Knew it was a tight layover in Chicago but unfortunately that was the only option that worked so went for it. Flight out of Sioux Falls was delayed... I understand to a point, but the frustrating part is they will never come out and say delayed and give you an estimate of how long. Five minutes before our scheduled departure they were showing on time and our plane wasn't even at the gate... Anyways, get to Chicago and missed my connection. They had booked me for a flight the next morning through Charlotte. They made me gate check my bag in Sioux Falls so long night in the Chicago airport with no bag. O...
Read more

Tourist Day

Image
  So this trip was obviously all about Chase's graduation, especially as basically lost a day with my Chicago fiasco. But I did have all day today as Chase flew out last night. He did have a bit of a delay in Atlanta but did make it to Minneapolis a little after 2:00 in the morning... Hopefully we are done with delays! Anyways I had the day to myself to play tourist in Charleston. It is HOT, like it hurts your skin HOT. But I decided to head down to historic Charleston anyways. I thought about doing a Grayline tour of the city, as it's on an air-conditioned bus, but ended up just riding the free transit bus around the city. I got off on King Street and did some walking along the shops. Ended up wandering in a Target (yes, there is a Target on King Street) just because it was air conditioned. There was a shop I heard had gold Palmetto bug jewelry, I was intrigued. Palmetto bugs are basically a cockroach and a big problem in the area... Anyways found the store and had to get myse...
Read more