Today, I am feeling rather adventurous! I ran some errands, and helped out a friend earlier this afternoon. When I got home, I got a wild hair and decided that I should make a bucket list of places and things we have been wanting to do around our area. I was honestly very surprised how long the list has gotten over the course of the evening.
After I thought I completed our list, I decided to go ahead and check one of the places off while I ran out to go grab a quick bite to eat this evening. Lexi and I jumped in the car, and off we went! We stopped at Panera Bread to grab a Sierra Turkey sandwich, my favorite. I usually get it with warm Baked Potato soup. It's so good.
Another favorite I have is driving past Downtown Summerville. It's so pretty, and there are so many neat hole in the wall places and shops to stop at. Last week, I found the cutest little local coffee shop called Coastal Coffee Roasters. They have so many neat products all made by people who live in our area.
Past Downtown Summerville was our destination, the Linwood Gardens. I had read about them when I was looking up information about the Charleston Tea Plantation a couple of weeks ago. They have a tour that apparently goes from Downtown Charleston, to the gardens in Summerville. I decided to forgo the tour and drive over there myself, so I could stop and take photographs and go at my own pace.
When Lexi and I arrived at the road the gardens were along, we came to find out that this is definitely NOT a road with gardens. It was a road with pretty houses that the people who live in these houses, never clearly take care of their yards. Needless to say I was very disappointed, and I'm sure my sweet Lexi was more than ready to exit the vehicle. I didn't even bother to stop and take a photo for you to see.
One thing checked off our bucket list. Hopefully the rest of our bucket list is not as disappointing! The plus: I hardly wasted any gas or time.
Here are some places around our area that we would like to visit in the near future!
1. Yearly summer River dogs baseball game.
2. North Charleston Amtrak Station. (Sounds very odd, but its old, historical and a great photo opp!)
3. Summerville farmers market.
4. North Charleston Park Circle farmers market.
5. Angel Oak Tree on John's Island. (We have been here once, but the park had already closed and we weren't able to see it.)
6. Charleston Tea Plantation
7. Firefly Distillery
8. Irvin House Vineyards
9. Beaufort, South Carolina
10. Champney's Blueberry Farm- You can pick your own blueberries! They also don't use pesticides, so you can pick and eat them right off the vine!
11. Boone Hall Plantation to pick strawberries in the early summer. Also to attend the Southern Living Taste of Charleston in the fall. (We have been to Boone Hall to tour and it's absolutely gorgeous. Parts of The Notebook was filmed here too! Hint: It's one of my favorite places in the Lowcountry right now!)
12. Magnolia Cemetery
13. The Hunley Submarine
14. Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
15. Middle Place Plantation and Gardens
16. Fort Moultrie
17. Fort Sumter. (My fiance went with my dad and sister a couple weeks ago and now I'm wishing I would have gone!)
18. Stroll along Pitt Street in Mount Pleasant
19. Visit all of The Notebook filming locations
20. Botany Bay
21. Hilton Head, South Carolina
22. Bulls Island, South Carolina
23. Cypress Gardens, South Carolina
24. Rent bicycles and ride down to the washout point at Folly Beach to see the Morris Island lighthouse
25. Linwood Gardens in Summerville and Azalea Park down the road. Done!
Hope everyone is having a great day!
-A
Update: Red is completed! :)
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