Over the weekend Nate and I headed to Charleston, South Carolina for the Charleston Marathon. Nate ran the full with a friend from his A-100, and they both rocked it!
I had signed up to run the full marathon, but when I realized my knee wouldn’t be able to handle 26.2 miles I switched to the half. Then I tripped and fell walking home from work, banging my ouchy knee on the pavement. I was thinking maybe I’d run/walk the half, running as much as I could and then walking when my knee started to hurt. Then on Friday I got a cold. I decided it was the universe’s way of telling me to just take it easy, so instead I cheered for the runners.
Runners coming up King St.
Cheering for the marathoners was fun, and it was time for me to give back to my fellow runners by being a good spectator. So I cheered for all the runners, didn’t tell them they were almost done until the finish line was in sight, and clapped until my hands hurt. Now I understand why people use cowbells.
A statue of John C. Calhoun, who apparently had big hair and was a jerk
Anyways, we ate at some truly amazing places in Charleston and I’m only sad that we didn’t stay there longer!
On Friday night we had dinner at Coast, which had pretty good Yelp reviews but was a bit of tourist trap. The crab dip was boring, but the shrimp and grits was tasty and Nate liked his fish entree.
Saturday night we did a pretty serious restaurant crawl. We started out at Slightly North of Broad, which was awesome. The cocktails were super (especially the sangria), and we shared the charcuterie and cheese plates. I’m a sucker for some good chicken liver mousse, and their’s was great.
Then we headed a few feet down the road to The Gin Joint. Wow, talk about phenomenal cocktails. Nate had the Ichabod Crane, which was one of the most unique drinks I’ve ever tried. The food was alright; this place is definitely more about the drinks than the food.
After than we went to The Ordinary. I’m glad this was our third stop and I wasn’t exactly hungry by the time we arrived here. Otherwise I would have ordered the entire fricking menu. The food was spot-on perfect. We had the oyster sliders, scallop hush puppies, and the seafood platter. The food and drinks here are both killer.
We rounded out the night at Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit. We were so stuffed at this point, we just took our biscuits to-go and ate them at the airport the next morning. The blackberry jam biscuits were my favorite…. soooo good.
Words to live by
We’re going to try to make it back to Charleston again before we leave, but our weekends are filling up quickly. My parents are coming to visit before we leave, we are taking a short trip to Boston, there’s the Cherry Blossom 10-miler and then FACT training, and we’re trying to spend as much time with our friends as possible!
According to Athena 