blog 56

So I just realized that I mixed up today and yesterday so today I’m going to blog about my favorite place.  My favorite place in the world is Charleston, South Carolina.  My family and I go down there every summer and it’s absolutely gorgeous.  Every summer, my auntie Mar, Uncle Mike, Auntie Jeanne, my mom, my dad, my brother and I go down to Kiawah Island (20 miles away from Charleston) and stay in a vacation condo for a week.  We used to have one more vacationer, my uncle Don, but he passed away last year and his absence is very noticeable.  I went to Kiawah one year after his passing and it was almost unbearable.  Everything I had known before had gone and the vacation seemed kind of empty.  Even though I really love Kiawah Island, I have chosen not to go this year because it literally broke my heart going without my uncle Don.  But the main reason why I love Charleston and South Carolina in general is because everything is natural beauty.  Everything there has been the same for hundreds of years, the families who live there are from the plantations of the 1800s.  There is old money there, people who have more class that I could even imagine.  I love that Charleston isn’t a very hot vacation spot and therefore, it’s not a tourist trap.  I just love the serenity of the city and I miss it everyday.  But I don’t think I could face another week of a half empty house without the laughter of my uncle ringing through the vents.