Charleston Chew

Today we started off with breakfast at Glazed. It's a gourmet donut shop. It was so good. I had a glazed bacon donut. I had always been afraid to try a bacon donut, but it was really good. It not only had bacon on top, but in the dough as well. In a way it's just like having bacon with pancakes. I also had a chocolate raspberry turnover. The raspberry icing was great. You could tell it was made with real raspberries and there were real raspberries inside as well. So delicious. I highly recommend this place.

After that we headed over to Fort Sumter. It's pretty cool. We had to take a half-hour boat ride out to it. It was cool to see the place where the Civil War began. Not that the war itself was a cool thing. The Union pretty much ceded it pretty quickly and then spent the next three years trying to get it back.

After that, my mom wanted a hot dog. I did a quick google search and found that there was a popular hot dog place not that far away. It's a tradition to always find a good hot dog place and post about it on this blog. Provo has J-Dawgs. Boston has Spike's. Indianapolis has King David Dogs. Charleston has Jack's Cosmic Dogs. It was good. I don't think it's better than a J-Dawg or Spike's, but it is certainly up there. The fries were excellent. Boardwalk fries like and fresh. I got a chili-cheese dog that was delicious. The atmosphere was great as well.

Those were the major highlights of the day. On to Savannah tomorrow!

Obama's Fried Chicken

Today we woke up and went and saw one of the oldest and biggest oak trees in the world. The Angel Oak Tree is over a 1000 years old and is super huge. They have supports to hold up its branches so they don't break. It's just outside of Charleston and a really nice drive on John's Island.

After a quick stop at the golden arches for breakfast we were on our way to the Boone Hall plantation. It's essentially a replica of what a real plantation would look like. It was cool. They had a main house and then the slave quarters. Neat to see what a plantation would have looked like.

Then we came back to the hotel. I had an interview over the phone with Enerdel's legal department. The lady completely forgot about it, but I called her and we were able to chat. I think it went well and I have a follow up interview next Thursday. That means I'll have to cut my vacation a little bit short, but hopefully it will give me something to do this summer.

Then we went to dinner at Jestine's Kitchen for dinner. It came highly recommended. It was a really small, old-fashioned place. They had glass soda bottles and something almost as rare: glass ketchup bottles. You rarely see those anymore. The first amazing thing was they had cucumber salad. I only had that in Hungary before. It was really good though for being in America. I had fried chicken with mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese.

Everything was excellent. Good, but not super greasy which was very surprising. My mom had ham which was also excellent. For dessert we had peach-blueberry cobbler topped with ice cream. That was great as well.

All in all it was a good day. On our way to the oak tree we saw a bumper sticker that I really liked. I agree!

Alligator Adventure

Today we slept in which was nice after the long drive yesterday. Then we got ready and went to breakfast at a local pancake house. Pigs in a Blanket breakfast style. Then we headed to Walmart to get some stuff that we needed. Then we headed to Alligator Adventure which is essentially a mini-zoo with an insanely large amount of alligators. It was really interesting.

The most exciting part was when they fed them. Surprisingly alligators don't need to eat that much. In fact they can eat as little as once a year. They use their food a lot more efficiently. The biggest and oldest alligator they have weighs a ton and is close to twenty feet long. Today he ate four rabbits for lunch. The craziest part was hearing the rabbits bones crush as the alligator dropped his jaw on them. They only have to feed him once a week.

We also got to see smaller alligators get fed and a reptile show. All in all it was well worth it to visit this place. After that we headed to the boardwalk and the beach. I went into the water for about an hour. It wasn't cold and it was fun to be in the water.

After that we had some dinner and then just chilled. On to Charelston tomorrow!

Grobies Unite

My mom and I set out on our summer vacation by heading south. We only hit a little bit of traffic outside of Washington D.C. I got some good reading done on the way down. We stopped for lunch at Hardees. It was packed. Apparently they like their Hardees in North Carolina. Our next stop was at a Grobie's house in Wrightsville Beach, which is just outside of Wilmington. It was beautiful.

My mom's Grobie friend has a beautiful beach house. They spent most of the time talking about Josh. She did have this sign though which I thought was pretty funny.

Then we made the 1 1/2 hour drive to Myrtle Beach. We had dinner at Applebees and checked into our hotel room!