Life is Better than Good.: Charleston.

I love Charleston and I tell Erik that all the time :) We were supposed to go on a babymoon to Charleston but we just never got around to it. So my clever husband bought us a weekend in Charleston for my birthday (May 25th). He bought two nights in July for us to stay at an awesome hotel in downtown Charleston called the Vendue Inn. It was fancy (well for us). They valet your car each day (for a cost of course), offer you "chilled" towels, have a wine & cheese happy hour, offer freshly baked cookies at 9pm every night (no cost, wahoo!), "turn down your sheets" before you go to bed (seriously?!), and walk your luggage to your room and pick it up when you leave. Now, thats fancy.

Well you know our trip couldn't start off the right way, duh. On our way down I realized I forgot my make-up. Oops. So we immediately took Vendue Inn out of the GPS and typed in mall. I had to do everyone a favor, nobody wants to see me all weekend without makeup. So we went to a mall about 6 miles from out hotel. I got my makeup and we headed to the hotel.

The Vendue Inn is very dated or historical if you will, but fancy at the same time. We checked into the hotel and decided to go explore. We got TONS of recommendations for eating places. Good lord, we would have to be there a month to eat at all the places. But Friday night we went to Fleet Landing for dinner and Kaminsky's for desert. Erik got a brownie with ice cream and I got the mixed berry cobbler YUM!

Saturday morning we woke up and grabbed breakfast at a local coffee shop and then went for pedicures. They were at a ladies and gents spa. Erik of course had to do his research. It use to be a gents spa ONLY but they added ladies 2 years ago. So anyways, I finally talked Erik into getting a pedicure. He wanted to hot shave but he wasn't stubbly enough so he had to settle for a pedicure :) This wasn't your average pedicure. You sat on a very comfy bench (it was one bench for everyone) with lots of pillows and you put your feet in what looked like a real bath. Anyways, it was nice and $119 later, very relaxing :)

After pedicures, it was time to SHOP! Wahoo. We went to King's Street. I wasn't really in the mood to shop but I made myself. I got a pair of wedges from Steve Madden. Aren't you proud of me?! They were on sale AND that's all I got. In between shops, we ate at King Street Grille. It was typical bar food, nothing special, but good. We went for convenience :)

After shopping, we went on a carriage ride! The carriage ride we went on took us on a tour of Charleston and mainly talked about the homes in downtown Charleston. Fun experience! We went back to the hotel for a little bit and got ready for dinner. We had reservations at Poogan's Pooch. I got porkchops (they were good) and Erik got a filet. After dinner, we went back to Kaminsky's :) Erik got an oreo milkshake and I got the mixed berry cobbler again with ice cream!!!!

We then went back to the hotel and went to the Vendue Inn roof top bar. It was a great atmosphere and had an awesome view of Charleston! I was sad to end the night because I knew we had to leave the next morning :(

On Sunday morning we got up and decided to go to breakfast before we left. We had a few recommendations and unfortunately none of them worked out :( We went to Toast (highly recommended) and the line was wrapped around the door. Then we tried Caviar and Bananas but they don't serve breakfast on Sundays. So we went to a local coffee shop instead and hit the road!

I had an AMAZING time with my husband. We will definitely do more of that :) Thank you to my mother-in-law for keeping such great care of our sweet Gage. We know we can always rely on her to keep him safe and exhausted :) He always sleeps well for her because she keeps him busy outside on the playground! She's great!

Here are some pictures, we didn't take many.