Charleston and the Original Pub Tour

So Dave and I set out reasonably early to have breakfast and head to the cruise terminal.  We had breakfast at the hotel (wouldn't do that again) and then decided to walk to the terminal.  We had no problems finding it, but we sure had a tough time trying to figure out where we needed to go.  It seems that the police aren't certain either.  We found our way and things we a bit confusing, they had two peope trying to preboard two separte wedding groups an us two travel agents.  It took some time, but we made it onboard.  From the outside, you can tell that the Carnival Fantasy has seen better years, but the inside was a pleasant surprise.  Clean and bright, not gaudy like some of their other ships.  I hear she will be going into dry dock in November to get a bit of a facelift.  That is awesome news for us travel agents!  You can check out my Facebook page to see some of the pictures I took.  I am definately looking forward to sailing on her in October with my scrapbooking group. 

Once the ship inspection was complete, Dave an I headed back to our hotel to change and get comfortable for the heat.  My brother Mark met us at the hotel and we headed back into town to grab some lunch and see what we can get ourselves into.  We stopped at Ohara and Flynn's Wine Bar on Meeting Street.  What a plesant and quant place.  This ended up being our pre-lunch, yep wine.  I turned out to be our favorite place in town and wevisited there a few additional time throughout our stay.  Then we headed to Pearlz Oyster Bar.  This place is just outstanding!  Mark and I did a few Oyster Shooter (yep more alcohol), can you see where this is going?  We order some lunch, more oysters please.  We then headed over to Market Street book The Origianl Pub Tour.  $25.00 pp later we are booked, but have to wait.  Where else is a better place to do that than Wet Willies, you guessed it more alcohol and this drink has a cool name "Superman".  You can only imagine the state of mind we were in by 7:00.  So the pub tour begins and we can already tell this is going to be a long night.  Our tour guide Chris did an awesome job on keeping us safe and did a great job trying to teach us something about the history of Charleston.  The tour was supposed to be over by 10:00 and well ours didn't end until well after midnight.  We visited 5 different bars and at each place you got a free specialty shot from the bartender.  Again, pictures will be up on my facebook.  I didn't even know I could play the tamborine.  You don't have to drink it up like we did, but you definately should do the tour and ask for Chris he will show you a crazy time.