Grace Upon Grace: Kiawah Island

Woo hoo! Can I just tell you how much fun we had on our trip to Kiawah Island!! The best part about it was that it was a S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E!! (for those of you that know the 5 love languages, mine is the 6th one.. surprises). Hubby planned the entire thing without me finding out until we were about 20 minutes away (saw the signs on the road... a smarty I am). We arrived around 2:00 on Saturday and went grocery shopping on the mainland. When we got to our condo JT had arranged for bikes to be waiting for us. I was so thrilled!

We hopped on right away and were gone on a 3 hour bike ride! I know what you're thinking... that's a long time. We weren't prepared at all. No water, no sunscreen (used my charm to use some from strangers on the beach) and no map. Regardless it was great! JT showed me around the famous Ocean Course and we saw about 15 alligators (give or take) to boot! It was so great because the sand is harder so you could ride up to 10 miles right on the shoreline. JT was quite the stuntman ;)

We got all showered up and went for dinner at the King Street Grill where we had sandwiches on soft pretzel rolls. It's like a bun but made out of a soft pretzel... yum! Thinking about bringing those puppies to the Rimbey Kitchen. I couldn't find our camera charger before we left and was determined to get pictures, so I politely asked JT for the nearest Target or Circuit City. After he politely told me it was about an hour away my heart sunk. God knew I was sad, so he introduced us to a family that actually let us come over to their house (mansion rather) and borrow their charger for the night!! So, the lovely pictures to follow are all because of Leann, , and David's kind (and trusting) hearts.

After leaving their house with charger in hand JT slams on the breaks and says "WHOA!"... he backs up, I look out the window and see this...

... and we look like this...

He was humungous! I actually started to get a little scared when he started walking towards the car. Turns out he was headed for a bush the size of a bowling ball (not too smart) to hide his eyes behind. Apparently if he couldn't see us we couldn't see him. It was quite an adventure.

We finished the night with a nice walk and off to bed. The next day we went to the beach for a little sun and then proceeded to a Kayak "tour." Not sure what river or sound we Kayaked on, but it was right on the Island.

Not the best $$ we've spent (kinda boring), but it gave us a good workout. They told us we'd see dolphins. We did, but about 100 yards away and only once. Oh well, guess you can't control the animals unless you're from National Gepgraphic. We did see hermit crabs, crab pots, stingrays, and lots of jumping fish though...

Later Sunday night we had Dinner at the clubhouse right on the porch overlooking the 18th green. God gave us a nice sunset for a great picture, the weather was absolutely perfect and so was the company :)