Angel Oak Tree & Charleston Tea Plantation

My mom and I loaded the kids up this morning and took them to Angel Oak Tree on St. John's Island. It's 1500 years old and supposedly the oldest living thing East of the Mississippi. It was a big tree for a Water Oak, but I was much more impressed by the gnarliness of the thing! The kids had way more fun running around under the branches than I was expecting. Maybe it was because they had been in the car for well over an hour.

After that, we drove over to the Charleston Tea Plantation which is the only working tea plantation in the entire United States. I didn't know what to expect but it was actually pretty cute. The little tea shop was precious and the actual factory was super nice and clean. Wyatt showed his enthusiasm for the joint by dropping his cup of peach iced tea all over the floor.

The kids liked looking in the windows and seeing all the gadgets working and grinding and stuff but it was still a pretty old lady thing to do. So, I let them go wild because it wasn't crowded at all. When we left, the lady in the tea shop said, "I could hear how excited your kids were about the factory tour!" Oops!