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.

Fall Break 2024: Cruise

 The second leg of our trip was our weekend cruise aboard the Utopia of the Seas. Due to the hurricane aftereffects we lost one of our days on the ship, but we made the most of having two nights! We sailed from Port Canaveral to Coco Cay and back.

We walked around the ship and did our mustering before grabbing some lunch at the Windjammer.

This ship was humungous!! There was so much to see and do it was overwhelming. 

The boys tried the Flow Rider for a while after waiting what seemed like forever! The ship was only half full because a lot of people canceled but it still felt pretty busy. 

Towards the evening we encountered some pretty rough waves so we were all feeling a little woozy for dinner. Josh and Ike did the 10 story dry slide then we got ready for dinner. We ate in the main dining room both nights and everything was excellent besides the steak!

After dinner we went to go check out the water show Aqua 80. Unfortunately it was too rocky for the divers so they canceled it a couple minutes in. We got to see it the next night though! We went to the theater show instead later on and that was pretty great. Ended the night watching some karaoke!

The next morning we were supposed to get off the ship at Coco Cay but it ended up being super rainy just after the sun rose. This was pretty disappointing but we made the best of things.

The sunrise was beautiful at least!

Since it was rainy the pools were pretty much empty so the kids went down the slides a bunch of times then tried the Flow Rider again.

We played a little trivia, walked around, and watched some football. The kids played in the arcade quite a bit and we did a lot of people watching :) Overall it was enjoyable but it would've been awesome if we could have explored the island some!

The sun finally came back out as we were getting ready for dinner. We went up to play some mini golf until it was time to eat.

I ordered Thanksgiving for dinner and it was so good!

Back to the aqua theater and this time we had much calmer waters. This show was incredible, I highly recommend!

We watched some more karaoke then headed to bed-we were all exhausted!

As we were going to sleep we randomly found video of Ike dancing the previous night on the ship's channel. Too funny!

We had to be up pretty early to disembark so we went and watched the sunrise in the solarium then got a little breakfast before it was time to leave.

Overall we really enjoyed the cruise and would like to go on another slightly longer one. We loved the boat and wished we had more time on it! The food was excellent and there were plenty of activities but the kids did get a little bored on the day it rained since all of the outdoor stuff was closed (like the zip-line and the dry slide). 

Next up Universal!