MorMor and MorFar’s Lowcountry Visit

We drove MorMor and MorFar to the airport yesterday. They were with us for five days and it was a great, great visit because we got to share this wild and wonderful place with them.

We spent a lot of time at the beach.

(This –above– is Harbor Island Beach. It is vast and shallow for a very long distance out. If you look very closely, you can see MorMor way out there with the bambinos.)

(This –above– is Hunting Island Beach. Our favorite. You don’t have to look closely to see two very happy grandparents and three very happy grandchildren.)

Kyle took this picture of my mom and me at Harbor Island beach the morning we were checking out a freshly laid sea turtle nest. I love it.

*

We spent a lot of time eating. We treated MorMor and MorFar to some Lowcountry delectables. We made sure they had pralines (they loved!), boiled peanuts (they did not love!), fried green tomatoes (yum!), and barbecue (Sticky Fingers in Charleston — impossible to not love). Fresh from the roadside stands, fresh off the farms, we had peaches, tomatoes, watermelon. Fresh from the roadside stands, fresh off the boats, we had stone crabs, grouper, shrimp.

They treated us to dinner out one night. Meera took the two photos below, from her seat at the restaurant:

We treated them to blue crabs (we only caught two!!!), and Lowcountry peel-n-eat shrimp. (Fact: shrimp is way better when it was caught that day from the same water you can see from the windows of your beach house.)

They treated us to a date night. That date night was greatly enjoyed by all five J-Ms. Braydon and I got to indulge in our favorite Beaufort restaurant — Saltus River Grill. The bambinos got to indulge in a night alone with MorMor and MorFar. That night turned out very exciting for them. They decided it would be fun to go for a late night golf cart ride around Harbor Island in the dark. At one point they drove right over a very large diamondback rattlesnake (venomous!) that was, apparently, making its way across the road… it was all very exciting. It was also very exciting for Braydon and I to be sipping champagne, eating very high caliber food, overlooking the waterfront instead.

We spent some time just hanging out. But not very much time doing that…

…Because we were too busy sharing our beloved Lowcountry with MorMor and MorFar. We got to show them this place. Which is such an honor for us. They saw dolphins, sand dollars, hermit crabs, blue crabs, horseshoe crabs, fiddler crabs, osprey, egrets, alligator, and of course that infamous rattlesnake. They saw the ocean and the marshes at low tide and high tide. They saw us in our happy place. It was all good.

On their last day we went crabbing in the marshes off of Pelican Point on Harbor Island. We caught nothing out there that day. But we had a good time. (Just for the record — for any photography buffs out there — I just want to state that I swear on my life, I did not photo edit the pics below one bit. None of them. At all. This is, truly, what it looks like!)

It was a great visit and we are so happy they came.

*

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.” –Charlotte Bronte