Quite cold this morning, about 40 degrees out but sunny. I'm up at 7:00 AM to take the dogs for their morning constitutional. With long pants, a long sleeved flannel shirt over a tee shirt, long woolly socks, winter jacket , hat and gloves we headed down the trail out into the woods around the park. Oh yeah, with the wind blowing about 10 knots it feels like it's below freezing. After a big circuit so the kids could get their fill of sniffing and do their business we headed back to the house for breakfast.
Since it's supposed to be chilly all day we decided to do a trip into Charleston and do a guided tour about town. Going online we got directions to the Visitors Center and then made reservations for a Noon tour. Charleston is a bigger 'city' than Savannah with more cars, traffic congestion and people on the streets. We drove downtown and tried to find a parking space on he street. Not having any luck we resorted to the visitor center parking garage. Nothing on the ground floor so we start working our way up through the floors. Sure enough, we didn't find anything until we got up to the roof and then it was a three point effort to get parked with about 15 inches on either side. But Tina was driving and got us parked with a minimum of fuss. 
Down we go in the elevator and cross the street into the visitors center where we find our tour van. Marvin, our driver and guide, checked us in and we got our seat. Five minutes later the van is full and we're off to tour the city. One thing we learned, never take a city tour in an enclosed van. Half the time you can't see what's being described and the rest of the time you're moving too fast or dodging traffic and parked cars on narrow crowded street. To give Marvin credit, he did a great job narrating the history of the town and many of the more famous buildings, landmarks and statues. One of our stops was on Battery at the end of the peninsula. We were able to get out of the van and walk onto the seawall looking out across the harbor to Fort Moultrie (http://www.nps.gov/fosu/historyculture/fort_moultrie.htm), Fort Sumpter (http://www.nps.gov/fosu/) with the Aircraft Carrier Yorktown (http://www.patriotspoint.org/) away to our left at Patriots Point.
After the guided tour we grabbed some lunch at a small cafe and did our own tour where we could drive to different parts of the city, park and walk around different neighborhoods. Finally Tina said it was time to head home so we called it a day and drove back to the coach.
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