The bus trip was fun. All the students gathered at the back of the bus to play card games.
Day 1 included Fort Sumter. This national monument is a fort off the harbor where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
The ferry ride out there was relaxing.
Here you can see the fort from a distance. Originally 3 stories high, this fort was pounded to rubble. Over the war's history, it was first in union hands, then confederate, then union, then conferate again. It was a key entrypoint into the state's largest city, so occupying the fort was contentious.
Inside the fort we saw the original walls and cannons. Many of my pictures got deleted accidentally, but this one survived of the wall.
Visiting with friends while waiting for lunch.
Later that night, we took a ghost tour of the city, which included stories inside a graveyard.
