Saturday morning, we had breakfast at the hotel restaurant. It is at the top of the round Holiday Inn. We had a table by the window...with an incredible view of the water and the Cooper River Bridge in the distance.
After breakfast, we headed to John's Island to see the angel oak. This tree is absolutely breathtaking. Even the guys were impressed! My mom had to hug it. We always suspected she was a tree-hugger at heart! Here is an excerpt from angeloaktree.org:
The Angel Oak is thought to be one of the oldest living things east of the Mississippi River. Acorns from the Angel Oak have grown to produce authentic direct-offspring trees.. Live oaks generally grow out and not up, but the Angel Oak has had plenty of time to do both, standing 65 ft high and with a canopy providing 17,000 square feet of shade. Its limbs, the size of tree trunks themselves, are so large and heavy that some of them rest on the ground (some even drop underground for a few feet and then come back up), a feature common to only the very oldest live oaks. It has survived countless hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and human interference, so there's a good chance it will still be there waiting for you.
After visiting the angel oak, we headed to Folly Beach to soak up some of the beautiful weather. The kids loved running on the beach and looking for shells. We saw horseshoe crabs, sand crabs, a lot of olive shells, and starfish....lots and lots of starfish. Ryan took a liking to the starfish. At one point, he had 3 or 4 in his little hands!
We ended the day by going to dinner at Hyman's Seafood Restaurant. The food there is always really good. Shane loves the shrimp and grits. While we were there, Morgan worked really hard on her coloring. Every few minutes, she had to show Mere!
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