First Day of Fourth Grade!

Fourth Grade.
Letting that sink in.
Fourth Grade.
Heavy sigh from Mom.
He is going to have a great year. His class is taught by the GATE teachers,  I am very hopeful he will be challenged this year.

Trying to be serious.
He had a good breakfast of french toast, bacon and milk

Shoes, they are required for school.  He has not been wearing shoes, if he could help it,  all summer long.

He is ready to start school!

SkyZone!

Saturday was Lon's friend Jack's birthday. He chose to take a few friends to SkyZone. I had never been there, so we carpooled.  So we started out having a great time! I would have never found it on my own.
SkyZone is wall to wall trampolines.  Lon had a great time!

They started out in the jump zone. Each person gets their own square to bounce on

Yes, the picture is blurry, he was bouncing super fast!

Dodge ball. You can bounce up the walls too.

Lon was having a blast. All the kids were having fun and playing hard

Then it was time to go back for pizza, followed by cake and ice cream!

The opening of presents too!

One of the kiddos.
Later on that afternoon, we had a cul de sac party.
Which turned into a whole street party. It was very fun.
I brought a huge tub of banana pudding and it pretty much got all eaten.

Our neighbors.
We had burgers and dogs and all the fixings! It was very fun.

The kiddos went back to Jack's house to play after it got dark. This is what Lon was doing.  Not sure why, but he was having fun.
It was a very fun Saturday.

Folly Beach !

Summer at Folly Beach is a little different than November at Folly Beach. There was much less parking! But we did find a great spot.

Watching Chelsea dig

Now she has better things to do!

They brought me up some starfish to look at and it was very important that I feel them too.
Then they put them back into the ocean.

They had a warning about jelly fish in the water. You could not go into the water at certain areas due to a high concentration of stinging jelly fish. The jelly fish were not staying behind the lines well and Lon got stung. You can see the bumps on his ankle.  Poor kiddo. I did pack some benadryl, and that helped.

walking it off

Lots more people on the beach !

Off to play with boats in shallow water

Moving past the jelly fish zone

Found a new friend and a good place to play

Lon and Daddy went back in the water to play. Sadly, he got stung four more times.  Not a very happy camper.

It was about time to go. On the second thunder clap, the life guards got everyone out of the water. We decided that this was the best time to go home.

seems legit, an ATM machine in a dirt parking lot..

We took the long way home, up the Ashley River Road.  It is so pretty.
It was a good day.

Saturday with Jake and Sarah

Saturday, Sarah and Jake came to visit! It is so nice to see them

Wondering what was in this building

Free Praline Samples!

No ice cream till after lunch

The other mural at the market

Up the stairs at the daughters of the confederacy museum

History bit

St. Philips from the powder magazine

It's Sugar!
This is a store near the market

 More sugar pictures

Sarah and Jake at the Moonpie Store

Low country boil at the Noisy Oyster

Inside the hot pepper store. I think we found a birthday present for Mark!

Playing in the fountain in Marian Square
It was a very fun day!
we had a great time.

The Last Day of My Charleston Adventure!

Friday was Lon's last day of Museum Camp.
I went to breakfast, thinking I would have enough time to go to St. Mary's Church. However, they took forever to get my breakfast out, and I ran out of time to go to the Church. It is one of the oldest Catholic churches in South Carolina.
I found out there is a trolley, a free trolley, to take me back and forth from the museum to the market.

I made it back to the museum in time to take Lon to lunch. We went to Joe Pasta again.  Good thing it was the last day of camp, we did not like it as much as we did the first time.

We saw these two walking up the street. Why, we had no idea.  Random coolness

The trolley! I like the trolley!!

On the way to the Nathan Russell house.

The Nathan Russell House.  It is a house we can only take pictures on the outside, nothing inside.

garden cherub

I took a picture of the gardens from the house.

The gates to the house

The detail in the porch. So everyone who passed by knew it was Nathan Russell's house!

At the four corners, waiting for the trolley to go and pick up Lon

Lon watching rocket! It was really fun!
 Lon had a great time at camp. A happy time was had by all!