Charleston Museum

We went to the Charleston Museum today with our "Be a Tourist in Your Own Town" passes.  We get to go a lot of tourist attractions for free.  It's pretty cool, but being homeschooled you get to go to these places a lot.  After the third or fourth time it gets a little old.  :P  Anyways, it was pretty cool.  Elle and I played dress-up and I got a lot of cool pictures.  Yes, you do get to see them!!! 

 Gotta love the peacock brooch... It's Chinese and I think it's gorgeous.  Something I would definitely wear!  Perhaps on a cute hat...?

 The museum's chandelier.  Absolutely gorgeous!  It's huge, and so beautiful!  Love it!

 I saw this and thought it was adorable-- Will someone be my Valentine?

 I would kill for this handwriting.  Not really.  {Maybe.}  It's so pretty!

 I thought that this would make a super-cool picture {and I was right!}.  I don't remember what exactly it is, I was in "the zone."

 I thought this little platter-thing was really pretty.  Very cute!  {At the museum the colors were more vibrant, but I couldn't use flash and they have bad lighting.  Sorry.}

I think that military uniforms should still be like this.  Very snazzy, don't you think?

 OK, these things are creepy.  I think they're called "mourning locks."  You would cut some of the deceased's hair off and put it into one of these things to mourn their death.  Why would you want to wear some dead person's hair?  I don't know.

 This 18-foot long monstrosity is a crocodile from "28 million" years ago.  Give or take a few MILLION.  

 This isn't the greatest picture, but doesn't this have wonderfully beautiful detail?  It's incredible how much work someone put into this!  I want it in my house.  Now.

 As I said, we played dress-up.  This is Elle looking out the "real" window.

 Dad tried on the top hat.  It's a good look for him, no?

 Here's me playing dress-up.  I was really surprised to find that this skirt was long enough!  The hoop was cool, I loved it!  Plus, my waist looks TINY!!!

Some pretty, old dresses.  They were terribly impractical.  I'm glad we don't dress like this anymore.  We couldn't do anything in one of these dresses!

 These women were so ridiculously tiny it isn't even funny.  Their waists were like, 25- inches, they were only like 5' 2", shoe size 4, and my shoulders are literally twice the size of theirs.  I would not fit in amongst these people!

We would have gone to other places, but we couldn't find any parking spots more than a mile away from the houses and we were all tired.  Exhausted.  My mom and I have our reasons, I don't know why Dad and Elle were tired though.  Elle probably out of boredom.  :]