This Post is 6 Months in the Making

So, in lieu of actual knowledge of photography, my current plan is to find beautiful people/places/things and let them do the work for me. This is either the laziest or most efficient method to attaining photographic genius!

Last Christmas (re: the title of this post) after too many days of full-on family time, Husband #1 and I escaped to the Charleston Tea Plantation. It was a chilly and decidedly wet day, a fact I didn’t take into account when putting on my new suede boots. Meh. They just have a fun, speckled patina now.

Anyway, the overcast sky actually provided a perfectly romantic backdrop to the Spanish moss covered trees. Have you all wandered through the low country in the rain? [Insert emoji with heart eyes here.] The Charleston Tea Plantation is the only working tea farm in the (continental?) United States. We took the tour which was led by a very dear, but slightly long-winded, elderly man in a darling trolley. It was interesting, but if y’all go, I recommend going in the summer or fall when they are actually processing the tea leaves. We just looked at giant machines and imagined what they might do.

They also had some farm animals, a tasting room, AND THE BIGGEST SWEET TEA IN THE WORLD. Well, circa 2015 but whatever, still big (lolzzzz) news. I have to admit, as a non-native, sweet tea took some getting used to. I honestly don’t think I liked it until my early 20’s (I moved to the South when I was 12). But now I love it. It is legit the best hangover drink. Don’t believe me? Get ye to a Bojangles and order a large sweet tea the morning after over-imbibing. (Don’t have a Bojangles nearby? McDonald’s has a passable version.)

All and all, it was a unique and interesting excursion. Good fun for the whole family, or for adults looking to escape the whole family.