Charleston

I'll give the details here of what we did, and then get other people to post on their impressions. This morning (Sunday) most of us got up around 7:30, got dressed, had some breakfast downstairs, met some new friends of the Georgetown Presbyterian Church community and then met upstairs for a devotion. Morgan and Jenna read from Numbers 11:4-6 so we could discuss the Israelites being dissatisfied with what God had given them to remind us to be grateful for what we have. Especially when we start working on houses tomorrow.

We headed out at 9am for Charleston, about an hour drive south on Route 17. Getting to Charleston there's a bunch of commercial areas before you reach the bridge to actually get to the city. It's a beautiful bridge and you can see Fort Sumpter from it along with the shipyards. I was surprised at how low the city was, there were no major skyscrapers, not like you would see in a city in the north. We parked down off Bay Street and visited the City Market, walking around the stalls looking at all the items the vendors were selling. Meeting up at 1pm we went to lunch as a group, the first restaurant wouldn't see us within a reasonable time so we ended up at Wild Wings. After lunch we wanted to walk up to the Fort Sumpter tours (you have to take a boat over) but realized half way up that we had missed the last boat. So one group went down the peninsula and one group went up to the Charleston Museum. The first group went explored, just wandering around the city. They found an amazing unitarian universalist church with a cool cemetery that was connected to the Lutheran Church. They also found the inn where Brent and Natalie will be spending their honeymoon. Rumors are circulating that people got in the future bed, but I feel that is unlikely. We all met back up around 6:30 to eat at Bubba Gump's Shrimp Co., a seafood restaurant with the Forest Gump theme. Good food was had by all and Kathy bought chocolate and caramel covered rice krispy treats, which were a treat. Our server played some Forest Gump trivia with us, and we (Amanda's table) tricked him into thinking it was Kathy's birthday. She got an ice cream sundae and it was announced that it was her 21st birthday again. We headed back to Georgetown, took a little detour north and finally got back to the church. Annalisa and Allyson led the devotion tonight talking about recognizing the gifts in yourself and others.

Tomorrow is our first day of work. Good Night!