I was at my daughter's house for nine days before I learned that the town she lives in on the outskirts of Charleston had its own little downtown. Prior to that I thought it was just a blink and miss it suburbs kind of place.
Naturally I had to see it, so we left our car at Azalea Park and went walking through Summerville.
Following my daughter's butt around, both literally and figuratively ...
...was a bit of a theme this trip
Yay, finally I get to stop at one of the obscure 'world's largest', it might not be a ball of yarn, but I'll take it!
This is her "I wish I had shorts on" look :)
I had to look this up, apparently Let The Pine Be Sacred became a motto because it was pine trees that first brought settlers to Summerville in the mid-1800's. I also learned, and mentioned before, that the city of Charleston was initially built with pine...seven fires later they started using stone.
Pretty little strip...but a closer look shows some strange things....
Like this- a corridor between a cafe and a convenience store apparently leads to an 'underground' church
We could faintly hear music coming from the far end of the hall, perhaps lit candles are an indication that there's a service going on-
Yep, the music was coming from behind those double doors, and I don't know what instruments were being used or songs being sung,
but it had an eerie quality that prompted us to hurry away-
only to find the next strange thing here...now this window display is about what you might expect from a touristy little place...
Sadly it was closed because I really wanted to know what kind of place has the display shown above on one side,
then CBD products and bed pans on the other...
oh wait, there's one more window around the corner, sitz bath...haha!
Okay. This is more like it.
Now to eat.
We were actually accosted by the owner, a straight 'off the boat' Italian who was hard to refuse.
And I'm so glad we didn't refuse, the complimentary bread alone was exquisite,
and the pizza? To live for!
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I generally run away from churches too XD
Maybe there were two shops sharing floor space to save money? I remember where I bought my favourite pixie hoodie from, the shop was entertaining as it was a clothing store and on one side there was all this hippie/high fantasy earth coloured loose flowy stuff, and on the other side black spiky fluro sci-fi clubbing gear XD
Yay for good food :)
I like old churches, architecture wise, the stained glass, the shapes of the buildings...but I prefer to look at it from the street ;)
That does sound entertaining- hm, I'm thinking an old folk's store and a tourist shop, set up for winter and summer :)
Looks like a really neat place to visit.
Yummy. That pizza looks amazing.
It is, and it definitely was! ;)
I'm so jealous. I can't wait to visit the worlds largest sweet tea. It's the only thing I have left to do on my bucket list. Lol.
I know right? I can die happy. ;-)
You might want to consider that if you carry on this series of posts you're daughter will have the most famous butt on Steemit. :)
Haha!! Fortunately that's the last of the butt posts, though I suppose there are worse things to be known for ;)
This beautiful town has beauty of nature and every kind of modern facilities for it's citizen, so i have perfect name for it. BITHI It's a begali Word, But it has a beautiful meaning, Queen of Natural Beauty.
That is a beautiful meaning! Thanks for sharing that with me :)
Thank You sir..
Just call me dreemit ;) (sir implies male, I'm female)
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What a great experience to be there awesome to see that thanks for sharing that :)
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