Another SC adventure

 

We were able to all be together over Mother's Day Weekend and participate in a SC adventure #8.  The card was for a smash room in Taylors, but since there is one in Charleston, we made our own rule and went to iSmash on James Island.  We could choose splatter paint or smashing items, and we decided to smash.  

After getting us set up in protective gear, they sent us into a room with a music speaker, bats and lots of glass and electronics for smashing.  Camden got some smashing appropriate music set up and we started hitting items!

 It was a fun evening, even though it was loud and we were all a little nervous about being hit by flying glass!  We also threw plates against the wall!  Kind of like a Greek wedding!  We got more creative with the glass items and started stacking them on top of each other and trying to hit only the top one.  We made a huge mess!

When I first got there, I thought that this would have been a good place to take the boys for their birthday parties, but as I was hiding from flying glass, I was glad I never was responsible for a bunch of boys running around with baseball bats!  

Broken glass and smashed electronics was not what I would usually plan for an activity, but time with my boys is priceless!

  

SC adventures 4 and 5 and kind of 6 and 7

 

On March 7, Dave and I took a road trip to Florence to see their Little Theater's production of A Few Good Men.  Dave and I love going to the theater, to this was not a big chore.  We did, however, never think we would be going to a play in Florence.  This town, sorry to those who live there, was not on our bucket list, but I am so glad we went!

We started at the Pee Dee Farmer's Market.  This weekend wasn't the best weekend for a farmer's market, but we still were able to see some cool stores/stalls and even buy some wax melts.  Lunch was really yummy at an Hawaiian restaurant named Aloha Kitchen.  If you are in the area later in the year, I bet this farmer's market will have lots of great produce and flowers and other things to buy.

Our next stop was downtown where we would spend the rest of our time.  We had heard that their downtown had been revitalized.  It kind of seemed like it had been, but then lost some businesses.  There were lots of lawyer offices, but there were really only four stores in the area where we walked.  Ice cream, chocolate, books and a general store.  All the stores were great and we bought things at 3 of them.  We bought beautiful and yummy bon bons at ChocoBella; good ice cream at a very busy Smiling Scoops ice cream shop; and a book at an awesome book store called Jack's Books.  As previously stated, all of these stores were great!  But everything else we saw were restaurants and bars.     

There were posters advertising the play throughout town.  This was a cool shot as my face ended up in the head of the Marine!

One other place we were able to go to was the Florence County Museum.  Like a lot of the town, there were things not available to see.  This was due to renovations.  But the history of the Pee Dee area was interesting.  And the special exhibit, pictures of Civil Rights by photojournalist Cecil Williams, was moving and well presented.

Our choices for dinner were either Mexican, Mexican Sushi Fusion, or steak houses.  We picked Victor's Chophouse and were not disappointed!  We had a great dinner on the way to the play.

The play was a great production.  We tend to go to the Dock Street theater in downtown Charleston mainly and the bar is set high for theater productions.  This one may have been slightly not as well done as Dock Street, but we were not focused on that as we really liked the play and almost all the actors did an excellent job.  I would go back to that theater again if given the chance.  Now we need to watch the movie as we have never seen it!

   

In looking through our adventure cards, I realized that we did the John's Island card on December 31 without realizing it was a card.  This was our day adventure to Angel Oak and lunch at Freshfields.

And then in looking for future card choices, I realized that we have also done the two Murrell's Inlet cards by going to Brookgreen Gardens and Atalaya Castle a few years back when we camped at Huntington Beach State Park.

So as I figured, some of the cards we have already done because we like to visit places.  But also, the cards are doing what they are meant to do by sending us to places where we might not go otherwise.  

SC adventures

 

We had our 3rd adventure from our scratch off cards when we visited Camden the weekend of February 20-22, 2026.  This weekend was FCA family weekend and we wanted to go up and see Camden and what he is involved with.  He has been attending FCA this year and is going with them on a mission trip to  Florida over Spring Break.  

FCA Gala 

Our adventure card had us hike at Isaqueena Falls near Clemson.  It is a very short hike to an observation point, however, we took the unofficial trail to the bottom of the falls.  It involved scrambling and holding onto roots and trees, but it wasn't too hard or long.  

After the hike to the falls, we had a picnic and then went to see the Stumphouse Tunnel.  This is an unfinished railroad tunnel that was later used as a place for Clemson University to age their blue cheese.  Now it is just a cool tunnel to explore.

Our adventure weekend also included fixing Camden's tire....

exploring Pendleton...

and staying at the Liberty Hall Bed and Breakfast.  It was a great B&B and I would definitely stay there again.

So another successful adventure together with our scratch off cards!!  

SC Adventure #2

 

For Valentine's Day, I bought tickets for Dave and me to go on a ghost tour at the Old Charleston Jail.  The tour was through Bulldog tours and Jake, our guide, did a great job.  We didn't see any ghosts, even though our guide showed us pictures of ghostly activity, but we did hear a lot of creepy stories of people who had been incarcerated.  

This is a cage where they would put body parts of dead pirates to discourage piracy.  Too bad we couldn't stand in there for a picture!

Dave in front of what old caskets would look like.  

Our guide talking to us from a replicated jail cell.  One to three people might be in one of these cells.

In jail together!

They had to have wheelchairs for some inmates.  This chair wasn't original to the jail, but it does have a history of  moving on it's own

The building itself only has the first floor as the "jail".  It used to be an art school and now the top floors are renovated for offices and event space.  We went for a romantic Valentine's evening, but don't know if I would want to get married there!  The outside is really pretty though.

The courtyard.  I wonder if this is where the gallows used to be!

Our second adventure was one we had not done before, so that was nice.  The bonus with this card was to eat downtown.  We did skip that  as we have eaten downtown many times and with SEWE in town, most restaurants would probably be full.  But parking near the jail allowed us to walk to King St. easily and look around and get some chocolates!  It was a fun evening!