Day 4

Saved by the Bell - Hawaii!!

We made it downtown again and took the ferry out to Fort Sumter. That was pretty cool. It was also pretty darn coincidental that we were there on the 146th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. I didn't remember from school that the Civil War started right there at Fort Sumter and what a big role Charleston played. I found the history of the city that day fascinating. It's funny how now that I'm an adult I enjoy walking through a museum and reading all of the information on the walls, whereas when I was a kid I just ran through there and wanted to go swimming or ride my bike.

Then we made our way over to The Citadel and drove by that. It looked pretty dumpy. I though it was going to be this jewel, but it looked pretty run down. Maybe we just drove by the ugly side. Maybe we were too hungry to really look closely and appreciate it.

Grabbed some lunch and then went on a carriage ride. It was pretty cool. The funny thing is, all of the horses and mules that pull carriages through town wear diapers. Not like what you are thinking, but it's like a pouch that is fastened around the rump of the beast of burden and below it's tail. There was some evidence in the street that it wasn't 100% effective. Now that only takes care of #2. To keep the streets clean from #1 we saw a pickup truck with a little tank of water and a pressure washer on the back that would spray it into the gutter. Now that's a dirty job!

Then we tried to go and see the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie, but the power went out 5 minutes into it. D'oh!

However, back at the hotel we watched the HBO show 'Big Love' which is about a modern day Mormon family that practices polygamy and it was pretty good. Better than the Sopranos, that's for sure. And if it is any indication of what it is really like to have more than one wife, then no thanks! No way.