We went to the Charleston Food and Wine festival. Great, great event that gets put on each year in the spring. They have lunches, wine events, demonstrations, a culinary village, dinners, breakfasts, and much more.
This year we went to The Rarebit for brunch. Of course I turned my nose up at the menu first, (there was cow tongue on it!), and of course, as usual it was an amazing meal. They pared it with some cocktail that they use their own freshly squeezed juice and their homemade sodawater. So good.
Then we went to Pinot Envy, Uncorked! with some friends. It is a wine tasting for, you guessed it Pinot Noir, and it was at the William Aiken House downtown. It was very good, there was a cute wine guy from Chile that had good wine and a great accent, I loved listening to him talk. We went to dinner afterward which also was very good and lots of fun. Needless to say I haven't touched red wine since.
That weekend Anna went to a vocal camp with one of her friends at Charleston School of the Arts, where they learned the songs from the move Frozen and did a performance at the end. She had a ton of fun.
We went to Miami to sail for a few days in the Lightning fleet's southern circuit. It was windy! I think for all three days we sailed it pretty much was a steady wind of 18-20 mph. We learned a lot and got some great heavy air practice in, and for once we were really fast downwind. The chute went "pop" and we took off! We did a couple of breakdowns, as Captain Ron from the movie Captain Ron says, "if anything is going to happen it, it's going to happen out there." We busted a jib track, literally pulled the everything including the washes through the deck, and we broke our boom vang in the last race. Oh, well, at least we know what was on the way out and it will be fixed for the summer regattas.
My mom took Anna for her peace project to a farm that grows food for organizations such as Lowcountry Food Bank, Crisis Ministries, etc. I think they had a pretty good time.
That's it so far! But we are up for a pretty busy spring!
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