This past weekend, thanks to my best girlfriend Tina, Dave and I were able to sneak away for a weekend alone to celebrate our latest wedding anniversary which was last week. Jade always has a ball at Tina's house so I never have to worry about her there which is such peace of mind when you are travelling 4 hours away for a vacation.
Anyway we got a late start Friday even though I got Jade out of school a little early, it was a slow drive down to Savannah, Georgia because almost the entire trip it poured cats and dogs but thankfully eventually we arrived there safely.
We stayed at the Country Inn in the heart of historical Savannah, what a great hotel, I knew it would be nice but I didn't realize how nice it would be considing the hotel was only opened 6 months ago, to say the least Dave and I were totally impressed with our stay there :-) I don't think I have ever stayed that comfortably at a hotel before, they had the best bed ever !!! Dave was impressed with the massaging shower heads and the nice big flat screen Tv and well we both enjoyed the hot buffet breakfast every morning.
Anyway after arriving there eary evening Friday, we got settled and then took a walk down to River Street which is the Savannah waterfront. What was really nice is it was amazing how warm it was, we could have worn t-shirts had I packed them but who would have thought it would have been warm there ? But really it was only for the Friday night. Dave and I had such a nice evening down there, walking through all the shops, watching all the big container ships come into port and listening to all the trumpet playing musicians that lined the streets :-) Eventually we started back up to the hotel but stopped half way when we found a live band playing outside a group of restuarants, we sat there a while and then called it a night :-)
Here is a view of the port and the beautiful bridge we come over to enter Savannah. You can see the river boats on the left there too, we wanted to take a trip on them on Sunday but it was so cold we passed on that for next time.
Here are the boats up close, one is just a tour ship and the other you can go out for lunch or dinner on it, I love these boats.
This was just a sailship that was parked at the waterfront, you could tour it if you liked, not sure why we didn't ... but it was pretty neat.
Just another view of the waterfront, there was one of the more modern hotels, not very historical like at all, you can see all the fancy boats out front too.
Here are all the shops along the waterfront, you can see that they all look very historical like, actually at a glance it looks like a run down dump but it actually is very pretty when you are walking in and out all the stores, all very well done if you ask me, I totally loved it there. There were also lots of restuarants and pubs along the waters edge too, expensive places but nice if you just want to either sit in one of the sports bars and watch a game or so or if you wanted to just sit back and enjoy some jazz in one of the other pubs, all really cute.
Ok this one I had to paste for my mom, this candy store would have blown her mind, it was awesome, we were in it late one evening but you could see if you were there during the day you could see all the candy being made, everything from ice cream to truffles and rock candy, we didn't buy a thing, can you believe that ? There are two of these kind of candy stores along the rivers edge.
Saturday we took the hop on hop off trolley tour which was a great idea, we first took the 90 minute tour in full which gave us an idea of what there was to see, then on the second loop we hopped off where there was stuff to see and then we would wait for the trolley to come by again and we would hop on until there was something else we wanted to see where we would hop off again, this was pretty cool, especially when late afternoon it started to storm so instead of getting sopping wet without an umbrella we just hopped back onto the trolley and did another loop in the dry comfort of the tolley.
One of our first stops was at the Cathedral of John The Baptist, wow what an amazing church, I can only imagine what it must be like to get married in a church like that, it was beautiful. Dave and I saw many churches when we travelled Spain and Portugal years back but this was was truly beautiful :-)
Throughout the historical Savannah you will see 21 squares, you know like we have circles or round abouts, they have squares, only the square isn't just this little square you go around, each one is a park with beautiful trees and plants and benches to sit on, they are amazing. They are so pretty that we even saw a wedding happening in one of them. Here are two pictures of just two of the squares, they are a lot bigger than my picture shows, but very well done.
What was also pretty is many of the trees are covered in this stuff called Spanish Moss, I have no idea what it is other than some air plant but it's everywhere, it's so very pretty but apparently that moss is full of crazy bugs so whenever people talk about it, they convince you not to mess with it or the bugs will itch you like mad ... so I wasn't going near it that was for sure but from a distance, it was beautiful.
I took many pictures of houses, but like Charleston it would probably just bore you to death but I wanted to quickly show you two pics, one of a pretty average house in the historical district and then the other which is the smallest house in Savannah, if I remember correctly it was only 500 square feet in size can you believe that and it is lived in ... also it just sold for a whopping $200 and something thousand dollars, come on it must be some rich guys play house for his kids or something, who would want to live there !!!
Last but not least, on the way out of Savannah we popped by the beach, it would have been nice to take a walk but it was so very cold we passed on that for next time too, here is a picture of the pier and the beach in the opposite direction. Savannah isn't really a place to take kids but we might one day, we could spend the day at the beach and do stuff walking around at night ... I don't know it was perfect for Dave and I though, it was one of the nicest weekends away we have had over here :-)
Thanks Dave for a great weekend and Tina to you and Lewis especially we obviously could not have enjoyed it as much as we did without your help, you are the best !!!
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