Sunny, but windy and cool. Bryan went off to tour Fort Sumter while
Nicole and I took Kepler to a wonderful Children’s Museum. Families living in Charleston can become
members and enrol their children in different classes like French, Spanish, and
dancing!
The Art Room
The Castle
The
Water Room: Dip a brush in water and
draw on the Blackboard.
The
Interesting Gadgets Room
The Shopping Room
The
Toddler’s Room
For lunch we went to the Xiao Bao Biscuit Restaurant in a converted gas
station.
The food is a blend of spicy
Asian and Southern cuisine and it was amazing.
Afterwards, Nicole, Kepler, and I
went shopping. Charleston has a lot of
antique stores. I wish I’d taken a
picture of a silver marrow spoon – it’s a long, thin implement with a deep
groove running along half of it.
Bryan joined us for cocktails at
the Charleston Place Hotel. I had a
creamy concoction called The Clydesdale
. Kepler enjoyed roaming the huge,
shining marble lobby.
This hotel interested me because
the taxi driver who drove us from the airport told us that he is working at two
jobs in order to take his wife there for the honeymoon they never had over 20
years ago! It is, indeed, very grand,
and the rooms range between $280 to $535 a night.
I’ve long appreciated grand
hotels as a place for letting children run about. Winters are very cold and long in
Saskatchewan, and the girls loved the nooks and crannies and the long ramps of the Saskatoon Inn.
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