Oak proposed going camping somewhere in our new tent. My immediate thought was “would like not to freeze to death” so I suggested traveling south to Myrtle Beach and Charleston. While I was researching Charleston I came across the Angel Oak. It is so named not because a divine nature, but simply because the last people who owned the tree were named Angel.

Well… of course when I saw this I immediately thought.. Hellow, that’s totally our Cosmic Tree! (If you don’t remember, we learned all about cosmic trees from our local river naturalist, River Dave). So, we had to go. It was very impressive indeed. Because it’s such a tourist attraction, maybe we didn’t get to bond with the tree as much as we might have liked, but at least we had the experience. I totally forgot about the part where you ask the tree a question… I thought it was that you make a wish. Ah well, I guess we will have to visit it again someday.

We explored downtown Charleston a bit…. it is so beautiful and quaint there. I hope we can spend a longer weekend there sometime. Our campground on James Island was very fancy. There was a holiday light show and a pancake breakfast! Wahoo! The only downfall was that our campsite was in the “primitive area” with a Boy Scout jamboree. Luckily they went to bed pretty early and we didn’t hear them for over 8 hours.. better than we’ve done at some other campgrounds! haha. On Sunday we went back through Myrtle Beach and played mini golf, ate at Wild Wing Cafe, and shopped around a bit at Barefoot Landing before heading home. It was a nice little mystic getaway!!

Here’s the pictures!

Posted by Carrie on Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Categories: travel, weekend · 3 Comments »