HAPPY FRIDAY PEEPS!!!!!

I hope you all have some stellar weekend plans waiting for you!  I know I have some fun plans on the horizon.  Last night I tried a new recipe – Yellow Split Pea & Sweet Potato Soup!  It was absolutely delicious and OMG… pumpkin seeds are becoming my new favorite thing!

This soup is just fan-freakin-tastic!  Please go try this recipe!

Now it’s time to finish out my re-cap of my visit to Charleston last weekend.

• Charleston, SC [Part 1]

On Sunday morning, I woke up and watched Food Network with Meg.  Seriously, I miss Food Network!  I reveled in all the Food Network glory I could over the weekend and it was wonderful.  Mike made us some really fancy coffee – You can view the tutorial on Meg’s blog: How to be a coffee snob in 5 easy steps!  The coffee turned out great and I drank it black.  Nick added a little milk & sugar to his, but he was extremely pleased with the coffee and thinks he needs an Aeropress now!  I think I need a coffee grinder!

Jammies, Coffee, & Food Network – amazing combination!

We finally got up and moving so we could get ready for lunch.  Lunch was at Poe’s Tavern on Sullivan’s Island.  My boss recommended this place and said his favorite burger was the Annabel Lee (which is served with a crab cake on top of your burger) so that’s what Nick and I tried.  Meg even took the suggestion too.   Mine was a Black Bean Burger, Nick’s was a real burger, and Meg’s was a chicken sandwich, but all three had a beautiful crab cake on top!  Their fries & onion straws were really good too.  Mike mentioned that he didn’t even eat fries very often or care for them much, but he really enjoyed Poe’s fries!

We were all completely stuffed after lunch, but were really excited about our next adventure to Fort Moultrie!  The next set of pictures come from Meg –

There was a kite surfer out there, I really don’t know how he was not freezing!  The wind was perfect for that activity though, which you can clearly tell by the pictures we tried to take.

Then it was time to head inside the Fort!

We all really enjoyed touring Fort Moultrie!  Fun Fact: Meg was a history major!  She went into a lot more depth with the history behind Fort Moultrie, so you can read about that here!!

Once we finished up our site seeing, it was time to walk down King Street, but we burned off a few lunch calories so we were ready for some sweet treats at King Street Cookies!  Nick and I got the 1/2 dozen so we could try a few different flavors since we wouldn’t be back for a while (insert sad face.)

We ordered: Strawberry Fields Delight, Spicy Hot Chocolate, Salted Caramel, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, M&M, White Chocolate Cranberry, and I don’t remember the last one Nick picked… We ate them all though with ZERO ragrets (<— hehe love that movie!)

We burned off more calories by walking down King Street and walking through the market.  We saw a lot of interesting things… such as the one location that sold edible underwear right next to the glass case of baked goods children were looking in (Inappropriate? Yes.)  We also saw some really cool art and I’m sad I didn’t take some pictures of their talent, but it was art made of medal or something.  I really have no clue what it was exactly, but I loved it!  I would have gotten one if I had a really cool hobby they could portray.  I wanted Nick to get the diver on the diving board.  They had a jogging one, but that seemed like the lamest one to get when there were surfers and skiers to pick from.  I have boring hobbies haha.

Our walk ended at the Pineapple Fountain which was really pretty and we arrived right around sunset!

This crazy kid wanted to put his feet in the COLD water.  Also, let’s discuss for a quick second how white I am – SO WHITE!  Looking forward to getting some color in Jamaica next month – if I don’t blind myself first.

We were pretty wiped out from our adventures, so we decided to head back to the apartment, have a drink, and relax before we went out to dinner.  Meg & Mike are really into football, so we watched some of the game that determined who would go to the Super Bowl – I’ll be honest though, I don’t remember who won.  She’s probably ashamed of me right now.  Nick and I are not big football people haha, I cheer on Mississippi State simply because I went to school there!  I go to football parties for the food, not the football.  So we watched the game, relaxed, and somebody won the game.

Dinner was Mexican!  Fancy Mexican to be exact.  When we said that, they both gave us surprised looks, but let me explain.  Mexican in Mississippi is basically like a sit down fast food restaurant.  It’s the most basic of Mexican.  It’s extremely cheap, I can eat with about $5 and get very full.  This restaurant though put more effort into their food and it wasn’t greasy.  I got the mushroom nachos, Nick got a taco with beans & corn.  We both ordered a drink too, me a margarita and Nick a bloody mary.  My nachos were awesome!

Once we realized how different our Mexican restaurants were, we spent the rest of the meal talking about the differences we had growing up – basically it revolved around middle & high school, how classes were structured, what was required to graduate, things like that.  It was fun to see how different the South is from the North.

The rest of the evening was spent relaxing. When we woke up on Monday morning, we relaxed some more, Meg & I had some blog talk, we packed up our bags, and then headed out to lunch at Panera before hitting the road.  Unfortunately Monday was the end to our wonderful stay in Charleston, but I have so many fond memories from our weekend and it was so great spending some quality time with Meg.  It’s amazing how connected you can become with people through blogging & social media!  I just love having her for a friend!

Looking forward to our next visit to Charleston where we try to cram all of our favorite things back in again while adding new favorites – I know, I’m extremely ambitious!

• Have you ever visited Fort Moultrie?
• What tanning lotion would you suggest to give me some slight color before my trip to Jamaica?  Seriously – I need some help!
• What are your weekend plans?

I have our Annual Company Awards Banquet to attend which is apparently a fancy shindig!  I’m pulling out an old bridesmaid dress for the event.  There will be dinner, drinks, and dancing!  Nick will also be in town, so that’s always a highlight to my weekend!