carolina in my mind

Little did Alexa know that she inspired my post today with talking about that song yesterday. Well, it also made me cry, but it was a good cry. 

And we're also going to pretend that he's talking about South Carolina in the song and not North Carolina. Mk? Good. 



Helene's precious little sister blogged about her amazing Italy trip today, so if you want something super exciting to read, go read that. But I hope you like this one, too!
I didn't have any plans for my freshman year spring break. Looking back that just seems insane, doesn't everyone go to Gulf Shores and go crazy nowadays? I was going to just go home and hang out. With my parents. CRAZY, I know.
At one point during the spring semester I went to Paris, TX with my new best friend Kasey to visit her family one weekend. They were talking about their spring break plans to go to Kiawah Island, SC and what do ya know, I left that weekend with spring break plans.

I guess I should mention now that Kasey had a twin, Calley, so it was the three of us and their parents. On an 18 hour car drive from Paris to Kiawah. In a Camry. This trip is just oozing with fun, huh?

We went into Charleston twice because it was a little too cold still to spend every day on the beach. This was during the Notebook craze, so clearly we had to stalk every place they filmed the movie there. They filmed the scene where Noah runs out of the bus on Broad Street, which is the second photo above. 
I absolutely fell in LOVE with Charleston. I'm pretty positive that had I graduated from college as a single lady, I would have moved there immediately. And wouldn't have any money in savings right now most likely, but in a city like that, who cares? 

We also went into Savannah one day to eat at The Lady & Sons. Of course we didn't anticipate the line, so we ended up eating elsewhere, but I also fell in love with Savannah. I'm pretty sure you could take me to any quintessential southern town and I would fall in love, though. 

We did meet some boys on the beach one day that were on spring break at Appalachian State. We all basically fell in love with Tyler (still friends with him on Facebook, so random) and he, being the Kiawah expert, took us on a bike tour one day. He said that the house above was where they filmed the Notebook.....but that could have just been something he told all the ladies he met at the beach. Who knows, still a gorgeous house!
The end of the week left me with a love for Charleston & Savannah that has yet to go away and a need to take a trip somewhere for a week by MYSELF to recover. I don't know how I was thinking that trip would end good, we all wanted to kill each other by the end. I mean, DUH, don't go on a trip with your new best friend and her twin that involves two 18 hour drives in a Camry. They will read your text messages and then still act like you're the best thing that ever happened to them. But that's a different story for a different day.