Charleston SC Adventures

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For the longest time, literally for years, we have had Charleston, SC on our list of places to visit! We have no idea what it was that was drawing us there, but we knew we wanted to visit! Maybe it was all of the talk of the AMAZING restaurants or just the idea of a southern city on the water… it was definitely all of the above!

Over the past year, we have heard so much about Charleston. Literally, I feel like everyone that we chatted with said something about Charleston. lol. Okay, that may have been a bit of an exaggeration, but seriously everyone was talking about it! ;) And every time we heard about Charleston, our hearts perked up a bit and we knew we needed to make that trip a priority! ;)

So, as Ryan’s birthday approached, we brainstormed something fun to do to celebrate, ya know like a beer tasting party or maybe even a scotch tasting… All great options! ;) But we decided to go crazy and make the trip to Charleston! It was the perfect excuse to gather friends and have the time of our lives exploring a city that we all really wanted to visit! We are so grateful for our super adventurous friends, Justin and Mary and Ashley and Jeremy (the What’s Next Crew) who are always up for being crazy with us and helped make #RyansDapperBirthday one we will never forget! (Check out the Instagram hashtag for more photos!! ;) )

We started Ryan’s birthday celebration the night before his birthday with an absolutely incredible dinner at Husk. The food was AMAZING and the service was definitely purple cow remarkable! ;) I called about an hour before dinner to share the news that we would be celebrating Ryan’s birthday. They said “great, we will make a note of it.” When we arrived to the restaurant, they had Happy Birthday at the top of our menus! Incredible! Husk is a definitely must visit for anyone going to Charleston in the future!

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Ohh… and another must visit is The Gin Joint. We actually went back there twice during our visit because it was the perfect low key bar to enjoy tasty drinks and AMAZING conversation! The best part about The Gin Joint is the choose your own adventure type menu! ;) You can choose 2 words out of a list of adjectives and they will make you a drink based off those words! ;) So much fun!

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A trip to a new city would not be complete for us without finding the most AMAZING coffee shop in town! ;) After doing some searching, we found Collective Coffee just outside of the city. It was so worth the adventure to seek it out!

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Ahhh! Okay, I must admit, we definitely were not aware of the absolutely gorgeous plantations that make Charleston so charming! We were so excited about the food that we didn’t even think about anything else! ;) However, Mary recommended that we go check out a Plantation for the afternoon. So we did just that. We went to the Boone Hall Plantation and I am so happy we did! It was just gorgeous! And this was our very first time seeing a cotton field in person!!! Ahhhh! Seriously gorgeous!!!

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Charleston SC (11)Our day was already AMAZING! But there was still more to come! ;) Ryan had dreamed of going to a Holiday s’mores event that a waterfront resort was having in Charleston while we were visiting. We had it in our plans, but then it rained! I had been watching the weather and had a feeling that event was going to be rained out. So I thought it would be fun to try to find a way to have our own little campfire on the beach! Why not, right?!? ;) This has definitely been a bucket list item for us for the longest time! I did some research and found that we could get a permit for a campfire on the Sullivan’s Island beaches! PERFECT!

We made a pitstop at Lowe’s to get campfire supplies and then made or way to the beach just before sunset! Gosh, Charleston is dreamy gorgeous friends! We really couldn’t even have dreamed of a more perfect night! (Ok, it was a bit chilly… but other than that, it was pretty much perfect!)! We celebrated Ryan’s birthday (again) with a birthday candlelit Peanut Butter Cup s’more from our beach campfire! ;) It was… AMAZING.

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Gosh, I love this guy! ;)

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And this AMAZING group of friends! ;)

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Ryan’s dapper birthday was definitely a birthday we will never forget! For all of you with Charleston on your list of places to visit, we would definitely recommend it in a heartbeat!!! And let us know when you go so that we can get super excited for you too! ;)