Day VII: SC

Charleston, SC

"3:16pm July 21st, 2008

Today was beach day! We all got up around 9:50ish and ate, showered, sat around talking about what we were going to do for the day.. watched Animal Planet. The beach we ended up going to was pretty sweet. The water was so warm! and so was the sand. I had to carry Mango a little bit on the way back- his paws were dancing on the burning sand. We showered, went back to Dane's dad's house, which is only a five minute drive from the SC beach.

It's so humid, and so as soon as we jumped in the car we were talking about jumping into Dane's backyard pool. Mango went swimming with us.

So cute, but doesn't like the water much. Oh well. I love the water and it's not going to kill him, so I figure he can put up with a little swimming. Luda is so big that he'll probably drown if he was thrown in. So much body mass. -S and M


ps- Mango's first beach reaction wasn't as extreme as I had hoped. He just danced around a bit and dug. He also chased birds."



Charleston, SC

"1:29pm July 21st, 2008

Yummy vegan burgers for lunch. We drove into the city (of Charleston) and walked around the little "market" area and down. The "market" is cute- a little channel-thing in between two roads. The channel-thing is under an awning and has a bunch of little stores and stuff in there. It was cute, but seven fifths of the stands were the same touristy things. The other three tenths were great, though. I guess Charleston is quite famous for their basket weaving skills.. or should I say, basket weaver's skills.

aaand then we walked. So so much. Actually, it wasn't so bad. Bea and Dane mostly walked ahead while Mango and I strayed behind a little. At CVS we got a $1.50 dog toy (a stuffed bunny) that squeaks when you squeeze. Then it was a walk through Dane's campus, and then back to zee car.

Came to Dane's mom's house (das where I'm at right now) and watched a show on the Nat Geo channel called "The eight limbed girl." Crazy, I know. I guess her conjoined twin was connected to her at the base of the spine, but upside down and underdeveloped. So we watched that while Dane's mom Kathy went food shopping for dinner. We helped cook the best we could while eating fruit and drinking white wine.

Kathy is so incredibly nice! She made me this lovely tofu and soy sauce, ginger, garlic, mushroom and lettuce wrap. Delicious. Everyone else had shrimp scampi, which I heard was good as well. :) They're all so wonderful and accommodating.

Dinner was so filling that we drifted into a food coma that landed us in the guest bedroom and now I'm about to fall asleep. G'night Charleston!
-S and M"

Dog in pool:
-ps. Look at my flickr for more videos.. this blogger thang takes takes waay too long.