ohio & charleston

been a real busy week. last wednesday i subbed and then headed to the airport to fly to columbus, ohio for the weekend to work a conference. a fun evening of flying as it was storming all in the southeast so my flight to charlotte was delayed and so i cut it super close in charlotte for my flight to ohio. luckily i had an hour and a half layover so i actually had about 10 minutes to catch my breath. and while on the flight to charlotte i ended up sitting next to a cute guy in the navy who was on his way to minnesota to see family. and so we chatted the entire time and then some as we were sitting on the ground in charleston for a good 40 minutes before we were allowed to take off. so we've chatted a few times and it looks like i might be seeing him again soon. but i was so glad to make it to columbus! i got in super late and then had a great weekend of work! lots of fun people and a great group of kids! i was only briefly in ohio though compared to my usual - i got in at 11:45 on wednesday and then was out ay 7:30 on sunday buuuuut i did manage to take in some history! down the road from the hotel was the ohio capital! ohhh and i listened to OAR's road outside columbus on repeat for a while to put me in the mood!

nothing like being a tourist at 11:30 pm!

very pretty capital

and then i had an adventurous sunday night getting back to charleston. my aunt was flying into town sunday night to spend a few days with me and to see charleston. and well the plane that i was taking from ohio to atl was delayed, which caused my flight to be like 5 minutes delayed. and then when we landed in atl it took us 15 minutes to get to our gate and it was 9:33 when the plane landed, my flight started boarding at 9:30 for a 10pm flight and i didn't get off the plane until 9:51 (so i was just hoping they hadn't shut the doors yet 10 minutes prior to flight) i RAN through the atlanta airport and luckily only had to go from terminal c-b but i was the last person on the plane and they shut the door. i know there was another girl on my ohio flight who was also supposed to be on it but she didn't make it. so arrived in charleston, met my aunt at the airport and then headed home. 

monday we played around charleston. i gave her the erin walking tour of charleston and took her all around downtown and we had the most amazing lunch at slightly north of broad (snob) and then amy met us for dinner at our favorite south end brewery. on tuesday i worked but my aunt had a fun day at fort sumter & the market downtown and i met her for possibly the best meal i've had in charleston at magnolia's. we had the best fried green tomatoes in my life, and i had the pecan chicken which was so delicious! and then last night just relaxed. today i worked again but my aunt went to one of the plantations and then i picked her up and we went to shem creek for dinner along the water and then i took her to sullivan's island to see fort moultrie and the beach. tomorrow we are headed down to beaufort, which i'm really excited about as i haven't been there!

college of charleston campus

snob - an amazing restaurant in charleston!

view down broad street

another amazing restaurant in charleston

fried green tomatoes over grits

waterfront park charleston

so i'm just enjoying my aunt's visit and enjoying being in charleston for the next few weeks without any travel!