TBT: Alicia's Visit

Back in August (Charlotte was 4.5 months old), Alicia came to visit. She had an engagement party in Charleston and decided to fly into Greenville beforehand.

Alicia flew in Thursday night and met Lottie for the first time. We hung out and played Thursday and Friday morning.

Friday afternoon, Alicia, Lottie, and I went to Cowpens, a National Battlefield.

Afterwards, we cooled off and relaxed at RJ Rockers.

We followed that up with dinner at Willy Taco, which is a fun restaurant with fish tacos.

Saturday, we left for Charleston. Alicia had booked a hostel for us. It was in an old house and was pretty cool. We changed and headed to the engagement party. Lottie suited up in her party dress.

It was Lottie's first night away from home. She was awesome. The hostel was in downtown Charleston, so it was pretty loud between late-night party people and sirens, but goose girl slept through it all like a champ. The next morning, we headed out to explore Charleston.

Charleston is a very cool and historic city. Alicia booked us a walking tour with Free Tours by Foot. Before the tour, we grabbed breakfast at Another Broken Egg Cafe. Then, we met up with the tour group. The tour was fantastic. It took us all over downtown Charleston and was full of great information.

Security spikes to protect against robbers and slave uprisings

Pineapple Fountain in Waterfront Park

One of the many beautiful gates made by the famous Philip Simmons

Of course, Lottie spent a portion of the tour like this:

The day was sunny and beautiful and hot of course, but not unbearable. We really had a great time seeing the city. Following the tour, we drove to King's Street and ate lunch at the Black Bean Co, which was nice and light. The highlight of the afternoon was ice cream from Jeni's, a popular ice cream chain. Both Alicia and I have Jeni's cookbook of ice cream recipes, which are amazing. We were pumped to try more flavors. I wish I could remember which ones we tried.

Lottie and I needed to head back, so we dropped Alicia off at the airport to pick up her rental car, and we said farewell. It was an incredible weekend full of exploring with Alicia, just like the old times. Well, except at baby-speed, which is about half of the ol' single traveling speed.