Fort Sumter National Monument

I got up really early and headed to Dry Bar to get my hair done because I sure love a blow out.  Sadly, it was misting and humid so my hair was a hot mess before I got back to the hotel.

We booked our boat ride to Fort Sumter for the first tour because if you are on the first tour of the day you get to help with the flag raising ceremony.  YESSSSS!  We got out there and there was no flag ceremony due to lightning.  They have to wait 30 minutes after each strike.  It was a little scary being out on a full metal filled island with lightning all around.  One of the park rangers told us that a park ranger holds the record for being struck the most time by lightning-7 times!

Boarding the boat!

Here's Bennett doing the Junior Ranger program.  Man, I wish he actually liked it. He didn't complete it.  The family behind us had taken their family to 49/50 states and they had completed Junior Ranger in 75 locations!

Here they are waiting for the park ranger to tell us about the fort

We had no idea that Fort Sumter was where the first shots were fired in 1861 to start the American Civil war.

Bennett with the battery in the background

This projectile has been stuck in the wall since 1861.

Here's the flagless flag pole because of the non-ceremony

2 national parks and 1 national monument all in one summer!