Folly 2025-Part II

 Wednesday

A few of us woke up early to go watch the sunrise on the east end of the island. It's always so beautiful!

Ike and Mom were back at it fishing again today.

Sunset on the west end :)

Thursday

Today we went into Charleston for a quick tour around our favorite spots before getting lunch in North Charleston.

Lunch was at The Glass Onion. The chef worked in some fantastic restaurants in Charleston so we decided to give it a try. Man that was a great decision!

After lunch the guys went to play golf so Ben and I hung out on the beach and then Mom, Ben, and I went out to dinner.

Friday

Last day! Ike went fishing again and caught a whopper. We hung out at the beach and got things around to head home on Saturday.

A guy next to Ike caught this huge shark!

A very nice gentleman helped Ike get this onto the dock. He estimated it weight around 50 pounds! Catch of a lifetime for sure.

Well that wraps up our trip. Another beautiful week in Folly!

Folly 2025-Part I

Saturday

We arrived pretty early since we stayed in Knoxville the night before. Since we were all hungry we snagged some lunch-Ike and I had empanadas and Josh and Dave had pizza.

The island was pretty busy since it was a weekend so we just hung out, unpacked and chilled on the beach for the day. 

Sunday

We had a beautiful sunrise to start our trip off right :) Then we headed into Charleston for a fancy brunch at Iron Rose.

I had the wild mushroom quiche and we all split this delicious pimento cheese. Overall a fantastic meal!

Tony and Ben took off for Savannah to visit a friend-the rest of us headed to the Citadel to walk around for a bit.

We played on the beach in the afternoon, then Josh and Ike went to a haunted house and Mom, Dave, and I got some dinner.

We had a beautiful sunset in downtown.

Monday

Mom and I were up early for the sunrise. Everyone but Ben and I went golfing and then came back and hung out on the beach!

Tuesday

Ike and Mom got up super early to fish on the pier. This was definitely a highlight of Ike's trip-they ended up going back several more times to fish. There was a group of guys on a fishing trip there every day and they helped Ike out a ton.

Tony, Dave, and I went for a long walk after checking in on Mom and Ike.

Today was the day for our family pictures on the beach. We've never done professional photos before and man this was super chaotic but the pictures turned out great!

After we went out so the guys could play this golf game they love.

California 2025-Last Days on the West Coast

July 10th

We traveled back to Pleasanton from Lassen. Lots of dessert looking small towns along the way! We did get to stop for the newly returned McDonald's snack wrap which was a highlight for me!

The boys in front of our house in Shingletown.

 

It was super hot when we got back so we took the kids to the community pool.

Dave helped Aunt Amy cook dinner. It turned out great! Alex came over again and we all hung out on our last night with them. 

July 11th 

I don't remember how it came about but somehow they all went golfing again the next morning. Another good round and then Amy and I met them for a delicious breakfast at the racing track.

It was so great to get to visit with their family and they were the best hosts! Totally opened up their home to us and fed us fantastic meals. We really appreciated everything and would love to get back out to visit! 

After breakfast we loaded up the car and headed back into the city. We stayed in a hotel by the airport since our flight was at 6 am!!

First stop was to the Nintendo store. I didn't even realize they had one in San Francisco but I saw it when I was looking for directions so we decided to pop in. It was so cool!

The kids wanted to walk around the fancy department stores so we did that for a minute but we are clearly not the correct clientele!

We skipped the Palace of Fine Arts before so we went back to walk through that. It is crazy, like being on a movie set or something.

Ike got one more mango and Chamoy on top. It's actually quite delicious. Then we spent about 30 minutes figuring out where to park so we could walk on the Golden Gate Bridge. Also it was freezing and cloudy again!!

That rounded out our tour of San Francisco. We went back to the airport, turned out rental in, and then took the shuttle back to our hotel. We Doordashed Jollibee chicken (delicious) and the kids played some Guess Who before hitting the pool for a while.

We turned in as early as we could since we had to be up at 3 am (great planning huh?) to get on the shuttle to the airport. No pictures were taken because we were all super exhausted. But we made it home at 6 that evening which was awesome! This was such a fantastic trip, I cannot recommend it enough!