Monday, March 14, 2011

Spring Break Day 1-Columbia, South Carolina

We had such a fun time on our spring break trip! We left on Friday and headed for Columbia, South Carolina. We took a small highway most of the way there instead of taking the freeway. It was so nice to be out of the city and off the beaten path a little bit. We were able to see some beautiful green fields and some open spaces. On our way, we saw a huge orchard and they had a sign for their farm store. In the store, they had all kinds of ciders, jams, produce, etc. I was wishing it was a few months later and we could get some fresh peaches! There was also a small "museum" with quite a collection of tractors and other things.

Camden had fun trying out all the different trucks and tractors.






















Two of our favorite shows right now are on the history channel, American Pickers (two guys who travel around and look through peoples' barns to find antiques and things) and Pawn Stars (a pawn shop in Las Vegas, they show people bringing in all kinds of antiques and they figure out if they are real or fake and then sometimes have things restored). We felt like we were right in one of the episodes with all of these antiques and things that we've seen on the shows!















This is a visible gas pump, you could see exactly how much gas you were getting-yes, we learned that on American Pickers :)




We took Camden to the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia. He had so much fun running from exhibit to exhibit to see all of the different animals. His favorites were the lions and the bears.





The kangaroo exhibit was really cool, you could walk right into the exhibit to see the kangaroos.









Camden enjoyed posing with all of the different animal statues.









They also had a farmyard area where we fed some goats and milked a cow!


At the end of the night, we checked into our hotel then went to get some dinner. There was a guy at the restaurant making balloons into anything kids asked for! Here is Camden's dinosaur hat.


Check back soon for Day #2!

1 comment:

Carrie said...

Looks like a fun Spring Break so far! Camden is just so darn cute!