Saturday was our last day to explore Charleston. We started with eating a breakfast bar in the room and then we headed to the USS Yorktown. We spent several hours touring the aircraft carrier. We walked all over it, up and down the tiny ladders/stairways. The only place we didn’t go was down to the engine room. The area where you started that tour smelled of oil and diesel fuel. It could have been just in that area to give you a resemblance of being on the ship, or it could have smelled that way all the way down. Either way we decided to pass.

We were there thru lunchtime and since we weren’t done we stopped by the canteen and bought a snack and water to split and continued exploring.

After we finished aboard the USS Yorktown we walked across to the USS Laffey. There is not as much to explore on it. Some of the areas are closed to the public. There were a couple of movies to watch, but by this time we were well past lunch and starving so we did a quick pass over it and headed out.

There were more we would have like to have seen at Patriot’s Point, but it was time to find some lunch. We decided to try Page’s Okra Grill. Our waitress had on an Alabama shirt. So of course we had to ask if she was a fan. She said that she is a Nick Saban fan. One of her regulars had given her the shirt and had taken her to a game in Tuscaloosa. We also saw a girl working there that was working at the dessert bar the night before.

I ordered the seafood platter and Jeff had breakfast. When they brought our food I had only shrimp. She had selected the wrong thing. She told me to go ahead and eat it and she would put in an order for the seafood platter. I wasn’t hungry enough to eat all of that food. I picked off it a little bit and then ate my lunch. After lunch we headed back to our room to rest and watch the Alabama game.

For dinner we decided to choose something close by, so we decided to go to TBones Gill and Grill which when we got there we realized it was attached to Kaminsky’s the dessert bar. The lady who seated us was our waitress the night before at Kaminsky’s. She had her hair fixed different and we didn’t realize it was the same person, but she recognized us. I had a steak, baked potato and salad. Jeff had tacos that came with no cheese and with rice and beans with onions. So this was definitely not at the top of our list of places to eat. The food was average. Not the best choice for our last night.

So we have heard often that Charleston and Savannah are alike. They are in some ways, but Charleston has more of a big city feel. There aren’t really any green spaces/squares in Charleston. We did not see a homeless population like you see in Savannah. There were people in both places trying to sell items made of the palmetto branches, especially those that would pass you on the street and try to “give” you a rose made of the branches, but then in turn wanted you to pay them for it. Savannah is easier to walk around than Charleston. Of the two we probably like Savannah better.

From our room we could see the cargo ships come and go. Here are some pictures from our room and some of the other side from the USS Yorktown.

And that’s a wrap on Charleston. We survived the tropical disturbance and enjoyed our few days there. We were up bright and early on Sunday morning to head home. There weren’t many people up and moving at 6:30am.