Over Memorial Day weekend, Mr. RCGG and I went to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. We love the beach and want to live there someday, but right now we just visit any chance we can get. This weekend was so much fun. W
e went to the beach a couple of times during the weekend. We usually don’t go to the beach that much when we stay in the Hilton Head area. We like to go into Savannah.
We drove down on Friday and came home on Monday. On Saturday we went to Fort McCallister. It was the end of Sherman’s march to the sea in the civil war. Mr. RCGG loves the civil war and I am starting to learn a lot more than I did before about it. The fort was doing a special Memorial Day event with cannon firings and civil war gun firings. I can’t think of what they are called now. We also took a guided tour of the fort with one of the volunteers. He was AMAZING! He had copies of pictures from a couple days after the battle that showed the fort after it was taken by Sherman’s troops. He watched the battle from a rice mill two miles away.
We also went to the beach on Hilton Head Saturday and met up with Mr. RCGG’s brother and his wife. We hung out with them for a little bit and then went out to eat with them as well. We went to a place that was actually in between our hotels so we both walked over. It is called O’Katie Ale House and the food is so good. I don’t like fish, but I have always wanted to try fish and chips and this place had the best fish I have ever had. Mr. RCGG had shrimp and chips.
Sunday we took a little bit of a longer trip down to St. Simon’s Island to check out the antique show. It was a lot of fun. I found a really cute necklace and my favorite find is two mugs. One is a souvenir from Prince Charles and Lady Diana’s wedding and the other one is from Queen Elizabeth’s coronation. How cool is that? We also found some other stuff, but couldn’t haggle the prices down to what we wanted. We walked around the island for a little bit and then went down to Jekyll Island since we were so close. We checked out Driftwood Beach since we had never been there. OMG!!! It was absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I have never seen such a gorgeous beach anywhere else. Obviously it s named for the driftwood all over the beach. I found a shell jackpot. We were there for about two hours, but it honestly did not feel that long.
We drove back to Hilton Head and decided to go eat at IHOP. Well, let me tell you something. If you ever go to Hilton Head, DO NOT EAT AT THE IHOP IN BLUFFTON. We got there at 10 pm and the server took our order. We hardly saw ANYONE for an hour. No one came to explain anything to us about what was going on or even took care of any other guests. We were left waiting for an hour and still got no food. We left and went to Wendy’s instead. It was ridiculous.
After we ate dinner at 11 pm, we relaxed in bed. Well then about 2 am we started hearing music and loud talking from the room next door. It stopped and we went to sleep. Around 5:30 am we were woken up by a LOUD crash in this room next door. We spent the next hour trying to get the front desk to do something about it. The KIDS would not listen until practically 7 in the morning. They were kicked out and we went back to sleep FINALLY.
On the way home we stopped in Beaufort SC. It is where the new American Idol is from and there were signs all over the town to vote for her. We also stopped at an old church ruins that is simply amazing. It was just beautiful.
This old church had been burned down multiple times. After the last time it was just not rebuilt. It was so beautiful.
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