More Spring Break Fun and Meeting Bevy

Today, we made the trip to Camden, South Carolina to visit a family friend at Cool Springs Plantation for lunch. Our friend Gaffney lives in an old antebellum home on an old plantation site. When we visit I can’t help, but imagine what has happened in this home over the last 180 years. Gaffney and his cook prepared a delicious lunch for us. He invited his friend Anita to join us. We enjoyed hearing about how they spend their time gardening and playing pool at Cool Springs. After lunch we took the children down to the basement for a game of pool. Our daughter doesn’t remember her last visit to Cool Springs Plantation so we also took her on a little tour. She was amazed by the staircase. Her favorite part of the visit was seeing the antique hair comb collection. After the tour we retreated to the porch to show the children the joggling board. Finally we spent some time in the rockers on the front porch. It always seems as if time just stands still when we visit Cool Springs.

On our way back home we stopped in another quaint South Carolina town to visit some of the downtown shops and eat dinner. Over the past few months I have followed Bevy at It’s a Golden Day. As we were strolling downtown, we came across the cutest shop- Tea Garden Gifts. I thought I recalled this being the shop Bevy mentions on her blog. We began looking around and were approached by none other than Bevy. I was so excited to meet a fellow blogger. Bevy is just as cute and magnetic in person as she is on her blog. She talked to us for several minutes- I felt like I already knew her due to reading her blog. The store is TOO CUTE- I was SO EXCITED to find a place to buy invitations. Several of the shops I used for invitations have closed. Tea Garden Gifts also had great clothing, shoes, jewelry, golf items, personalized stationary and CUTE, CUTE, CUTE Lilly Pulitzer gift items. I can’t wait to go back.