I Stood Where Jasmine & Halle Stood !

As I grown older I've become more and more obsessed with the Antebellum period as well as the Slave Era. Thanks to my husband's career we get to travel constantly and one of the places we were lucky enough to live was Savannah GA. This area was great not only for it's rich history but also because we were right in the middle and could easily get to places like North Carolina , Atlanta , Florida and one of my favorites Charleston SC.

Charleston was my favorite because I had started researching my family history (The Middletons from South Carolina hence Middleton Plantation.) and really wanted to find out what I could about my little piece of what I like to call my rich family HAAAA! Ok yes I am a Middleton and Arthur Middleton (a signer of the declaration of the independence is my great great great great great great grandfather ,but I doubt its the great love story I would hope it to be.

Anyway back in 1993 the three part series "Queen" starring Halle Berry , Jasmine Guy, Tim Daly, Ann Margaret, Paul Whitfield and a host of top actors and actresses premiered on NBC. At the time I remember being really intrigued with this movie for no particular reason other then my friend's (from elementary school) uncle was in it (he played Halle Berry's son Abner). In short "Queen" is sort of a followup to Roots and tell the story of author Alex Haley's grandmother a Mullato and her life in which she struggles to seek her identity .

Anyhow I have this obsession with visiting plantation homes so this past February the kids, hubby my mom and brother and I hopped into the Expedition and drove to Charleston SC. I had been researching and researching and found out that Boone Hall was where Queen was filmed along with other movies such as "The Notebook" and "North & South".

I think what I am most obsessed with about this place was that I was standing where real slaves lived and also Jasmine Guy & Halle Berry spent a good portion of time here filming this movie.

Here are some of my pics ... This place is beautiful so I just had to share:

Who is Krystel?

Hi I'm Krystel.

I'm 27 years old a mom of 2 and married to the love of my life for the past 6 years.

I'm definitley not new to blogging or the internet world. I am the proud owner of another blog that documents another part of my life which I would like to keep seperately from this one .

That other part of my life which I live daily is what was the deciding factor in creating "The Krystel Diaries". I have come to realize not many people understand or care to understand the other part of my life and frankly I blog about that other aspect so much I wanted to expand on another side of me for once.

Don't worry realistically speaking their is no possible way for me to keep the other little piece of my life hidden, I am sure I will slip up soon. If your that curious to know just check your followers list on your blogs and you will see.

Anyhow "The Krystel Diaries" will share my love for travel, Disney World, late 80's and 90's tv suburban neighborhoods, foods, roadtrips and whatever other crazy but exciting thoughts pop into my head.

Let me put the disclaimer out there I follow alot of other blogs and I admire the authors, and writers and their awesome styles of writing. With that said what makes me different is I am an awesome speller (damn is speller a word lol) but I hate punctuation and grammar. I did well in all my english classes but I am lazy when it comes to the technical side of writing. I honestly just like to get what I have to say out. I hope that you get a laugh a giggle or at least have a "this chick is crazy"moment out of my post but just ignore any grammatical errors.

Smooches
Krystel