Thursday:
The past weekend Jaana’s mom was here to finish up her own USA adventure. Obviously the first day she was here she got to enjoy the wonderful Charleston showers. But in the evening the weather had all cleared up and we had booked some seats at a local theater: Dock street theater. To see the Miracle Worker, the story about Helen Keller. For those of you who have no idea who this is, watch season 4 episode 13 of South Park :p
Friday:
The next day was going to be rather uneventful, just going the Walmart and maybe having dinner afterwards, but that was not taking into account the difficulty of renting a car without a visa card.
Jaana got a call at about 12h30 from mommy dearest letting us know that she could not use her Visa card to pay for the deposit of the car and she needed one of us to come with a visa card. Jan quickly found his “boss” and asked whether it was ok for him to leave early, which was luckily no problem. So he left at about 14h waiting for a bus for about an hour (he was not late the busses just run on their own times here).
Jaana did not have time to stop early, and kept working until 17h. At 16h however she got a text from Jan asking her if she could also come to the airport to pick up the car, since they needed a valid drivers lisence on the same name as the visa card. Jan has removed his drivers lisence from his wallet, thinking he wouldn’t need it anymore. 2 hours later, Jaana arrived at the airport visa and drivers lisence in hand… It took a total of 6 hours, 3 people, 3 visa cards and 2 drivers lisences to get that car.
Next on the list: walmart!
After which we got hungry and decided on:
nomnomnom
Saturday:
Time to test out the beach.
Going to Folly beach! Which was hindered in the morning due to a 10k blocking most of downtown
But after the run and 1 hour in the car (30 minutes in traffic) we arrive at Folly Beach.
And now pictures of the beach
To finish a nice and sunny day, we had dinner in ” the noisy oyster ” http://www.noisyoysterseafood.com/
Which was really good, it just takes getting used to the “2 sides” that you are allowed to order. For instance: I’m already eating pasta, which comes with garlic bread. I can choose 2 sides from the following list: Grits, Red rice, Butter Parsley New Potatoes, Coleslaw, Old-fashioned collard greens, fresh vegetables of the day, French fries… Difficult choice!
Sunday:
Mom’s last day, so we decided to go kayakking!
As a last meal, we had lunch next to the water in the wind.
The sides!? Always with the sides! Completely mess op my ordering. Turn into a muttering moron going euhm for 30 seconds before ordering something I won’t eat anyway… the sides… “I’ll have a pizza” / “want mac and cheese with that?”.