Category Archives: places i love

Charleston

I have talking a lot over the last few days about my beloved Charleston, SC over at my other website, bakedbree.com.  Wes and I left our children for the first time ever to go to my friend Stacy’s wedding.  We went back to the city where we met and fell in love.  It is a very special place for us.  We saw old friends and made new ones and spent time just wandering around this beautiful city.

Life’s a beach.

We spent the week at my good friend Stacy’s wedding in Charleston, SC.  It was the first time that my husband and I have ever left our children together.  We had a great time (I will share the wedding pictures soon) and was happy to spend some time at the beach.  It is hard to explain what it is like to not live near the beach when you have lived minutes away from one your entire life.  It feels like something is missing.  I love the way the sand feels on my feet and smell of the ocean in my babies hair when we go home.  When we got back to my mother-in-law’s house in NC, we had a nice dinner and headed out to the beach to get our fill before we headed back to California.

It would seem that my children feel the same way about the beach as I do.  Look at the pure joy on their faces.  We stayed until the sun went down.

Places I love – Ford’s Real Hamburgers

In addition to the new “blogs I love” section of my blog, I thought it might be nice to highlight some of the places that I love as well.  These are in no particular order but usually dependent on whether I was being lazy or not and felt like dragging my camera around.  On this particular day, I was testing out my new Panasonic Lumix L3.  Not bad, huh?

Back to Ford’s… my good friend Jenny introduced me to Ford’s and I cannot thank her enough for it.  When you first pull into the parking lot, you sort of wonder because it is, well, let’s say, a little dumpy.  There I said it.  Dumpy.  But I trust Jenny.  She would not steer me wrong.  We go in, and walk up to the window and order.  We go outside, find a table and wait for our name to be called.  Then the most delicious chicken sandwich and french fries were placed before me.  The chicken sandwich is plain but perfect.  Lots of good, real cheddar cheese.  (I have a serious problem with fake cheese.)  The bun crusty and brown.  Shredded lettuce and one bite and I am in love.  I hear that the hamburgers are great, but you will never get me to sway from the chicken sandwich.  Then I move on the fries.  The fries.  In my Top5 of best french fries.  Crisp and brown and crunchy and now I am craving them.  They are what I think of when I have to describe the perfect fry.

My husband says that this is one of the last places on Earth that you would expect to find Bree Hester in unless you had already eaten there before.  Look past the way this places looks.  It is delicious.  Trust me.

Ford’s Real Hamburgers

1948 Sutterville Road, Sacramento, CA (right near the Zoo)

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