A Whole Year

Our first anniversary was on November 18. The first year of marriage has been wonderful, and it has flown by! We have been told by many married couples that we need to celebrate our anniversary together each year. We decided to go to Charleston. We love Charleston, and we always seem to run out of time to do everything that we want to do there. There is a cute bed and breakfast on Queen Street called The Elliott House that we have fallen in love with. We stayed there again, and we were not disappointed.
This is the entrance to The Elliott House.

We checked in and rested up for a bit in our pretty room. Then we went down to the courtyard for a wine and cheese reception. This courtyard is our favorite part of The Elliott House.
Wes took a picture of me in the courtyard from the balcony outside of our room.

We decided to walk around before going to dinner. We walked through the (empty) market and went to Waterfront Park. Surprisingly, there was no line for the swings.
We are so excited because we usually have to wait too long to get a swing!
We walked to Henry's, which is a bar that I really like. I forgot, though, that it was Sunday, so it was quite deserted in there. After a very sad drink, we went to Hank's. Hank's is our new favorite Charleston restaurant. Their crab cakes are so good that they do not need ketchup. They also have an amazing thing called fried mashed potatoes. Delicious!
After dinner, we decided to go on a ghost walk. I had been on one long ago, and it was pretty amusing. We went by or into some graveyards and learned many of the ghost stories that are told in Charleston.
The next morning, we ate breakfast in bed! We had Danish and tea, which Wes mixed perfectly (he is a great mixologist). After breakfast I actually fell back asleep. I never do that! We left our room at checkout time and went to the market. Then I dragged Wes all down King Street. I did not buy one thing. We were so excited about halfway down that it was time to eat lunch at Jestine's Kitchen. Yum! We walked up to the door only to find that they are closed on Mondays. So we kept walking until we found a nice barbecue place that actually had pulled chicken and really good cornbread. It was called Jim N Nick's Barbecue or something like that. We will be going back there. After lunch, we grabbed a cupcake at Cupcake and headed home. I am already planning our next trip back!