Lee's Visit - Beer Exchange and Folly Beach

If you have been following my blog at all you must know that I really don't write much - I prefer photo journalism. I just love documenting everything with pictures. A picture is worth a thousand words. And now that I have my new camera, I am making my family crazy with my photo taking! Too bad! But for that reason, many of my pictures are taken rather on the run....trying to keep up with everyone else. But I did get some fun pictures today as we toured Lee around.

We started downtown at the Charleston Beer Exchange. (I always go crazy taking pictures in there as it is all so pretty.) We managed to find a parking place right outside their door which made it very handy for getting our purchases to the car.

You really have to click on the pictures to blow them up and get the full effect of all the shiny glass and colorful labels.
From there we went to Griffin's Pub just a couple of blocks away. Look closely at the walls and the ceiling - it is covered with money $$$!!! We each enjoyed an ale and shared a basket of onion rings - fat free of course!


We have been promising to take Lee to Folly Beach for a couple of years so that he could see what the surfers in South Carolina have. It actually is quite a long drive from Mount Pleasant where we live through all the holiday traffic, through downtown, over a bridge or two and past a couple of accidents but we finally reached our destination! It is quaint and cute and closed down during the day. But the surf shop was open and we had fun wandering around in there. Here are some of my pictures so you can feel like you just visited Folly Beach too!

Lee is explaining to Kirby the differences in the boards.

Look at all the colorful surfboards!

Quaint and colorful!

She is sort of colorful too - and there are two of her. I would say she has "fish eyes".

I loved the pictures - especially Elvis and John Wayne.

Another place closed.

And Rita's was closed too!

I just realized that we never really went to "the Beach" but the town was so colorful and cute that I never even noticed. It seemed that there were mostly hotels and condo taking up most of the nearby waterfront anyway.