Charleston 4

Hi. Here is another small batch of photos. This is one of the Mansions on the Battery.

















I don't remember what street this is, looks like the edge of town to me.











This is part of Rainbow Row. It's difficult to get the whole street in with a regular camera.













Charleston Harbour.
















Old cannons from the Civil War. There are quite a few of these sprinkled throughout this particular park.











Just a darn pretty gate.
























The Battery, in the rain.









View of the bridge from our terrace.














Some type of ship.











This is the best fountain in the USA. What could be better than a giant pineapple wading pool?

Charleston 3

Okay, round 3. It's late, I'm tired, so I'm just going to pound this out quickly. Here is a pic of myself, getting ready to eat a breakfast that was delivered on a tray to us, at 8am sharp, as we demanded. Be nice, I just woke up - jeez.










One of the gazillion horse and buggy's in the city.















Pretty houses, I think this was Rainbow Row. They all have great gates.














One of the many fountains I mentioned before.














Can't remember which Church this is, sorry. But I can tell you that it's OLD! We went into one church that was so flippin old, they had the seat George Washington sat in.

Until tomorrow....
Amy

Charleston 2

We stopped by the Charleston Fire Dept. on Meeting Street, to get Jake a shirt. It was a very nice old building. There is a statue on the side, honoring the fallen ones. There was also a fountain because everyone MUST have a fountain - I think it's a law. A damn good law.

















Inside, were some pretty neat vehicles. I don't know anything about vintage fire fighting autos, but this has a 1930's look to it.












This one looks to have been from the time of horses or steam.















Inside shot of the garage, with a real fire pole in the left back corner. By the way, I suck. I can't find the pics we took of the building's exterior. Below is a link to a photo someone else took. I hope it works.
http://www.legeros.com/history/charleston/images/262-meeting.jpg

Charleston 1

We will have to do this in installments. Some of you may know that Jeff and I went to Charleston for a few days. These are the pictures.

Here is the Circular Church, aptly named, because it is round. It also has a bitchin' graveyard.






Some of these graves were from the 1600's, pretty darn old. Oh look, in the bottom of the picture, it looks like a spirit come to call.















Here is a photo of the haunted City Jail. We got to go inside, and it was pretty dismal. It was used from the early 1800's to the 1930's. No running water, nothing on the windows but bars, dank dark and horrible. Of course, in Charleston they don't tear down anything, so here it stands. And directly across the street, what do we have?...........












The public housing projects. So, if you aren't depressed enough to be living in public housing, just glance across the street to the jail for additional reminders of suffering and torment.

More to come.
Amy

Sheep

Scarlet had a lesson in sheep herding yesterday. Right before her turn, they put 3 fresh sheep in the pen. She chased them for about a minute and 2 of the sheep scaled the wall and escaped. The trainer said they had never done that before. So she brought in two smaller replacement sheep.









Scarlet really went after the big sheep on the left (not the big fat person on the left, which is me!)














Here, she is staring the poor sheep down and walking toward it, which forces the sheep to walk backward. The other two are looking on, just like kids in a schoolyard, hoping the bully doesn't pick on them next.











More herding. I'm thinking of getting her private lessons, she was that good.










Sucess, she has them all rounded up in a corner. Good work!

fish

I'm sure everyone was expecting photos of our trip to Charleston. Those will be posted soon, I hope. I just had to do this one first. Jake and I were feeding giant Koi today, and this is what happens when they discover where the food is coming from. Yikes.

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Hershey PA

I took a few shots of our trip to PA last weekend. The pictures do not convey the magnitude of fun that was had. We went to Indian Echo Caverns on Sat. Sean had been years ago, but didn't remember it. Here is our tour guide who was very animated and fun.















Here is a photo of Sean in front of a rock formation. Don't worry, he's completely sober.


















They call this the "Wedding Cake". They actually perform wedding ceremonies in this part of the cave, if dark and dank is your thing. I wish Jeff and I had know about it, we could have eloped and actually had fun.












On to Sunday. Here are the wolves at the little zoo in Hershey Park. I know this is a terrible picture, it's all I've got.










Sean and Dani resting. I did have a few pics of Jake and his friends, but they have mysteriously dissapeared. Don't worry, prom is in a few weeks and it will be a Jake extravaganza!

Bye-Bye