Savannah Trip, Day 2

We started out this morning after breakfast on the Old Savannah Tour trolley. We rode it for the complete tour and then rode until we got to the stop that would be the closest to where we wanted to have lunch. We ate at a place called Mrs. Wilkes Boarding House. It was wonderful! We sat at a table with four strangers and ate "family style". There was so much food but it was all so good. They had the typical southern food: fried chicken, barbecue pork, mashed potatoes, squash, mac and cheese, and other stuff too numerous to list, with banana puddin' for dessert! It was all so yummy and once again we were waddling for a while afterwards. We then rode the trolley back to our hotel and had potty breaks. Matt stayed at the hotel while Brad, Savanna and I went back out to ride the trolley some more. There was only one more stop that we got off for and that was the cathedral of Saint John. It was beautiful, I wish I could take pictures well enough to do it justice. We then rode the trolley back to the hotel and we rested for a while before dinner. It is so hot and humid that it absolutely wears us out. We left to go down to River Street for dinner. We stopped at the cotton exchange so I could take a couple of pictures and then walked down the steep stairs. We hadn't been there too long and the electricity went out in all the stores and restaurants. We walked down to the waving girl and the electricity was still not on by the time we finished. We realized that it was only one block that was out so we walked down to the other block and ate at a Tony Romas. Our hotel was out of electricity when we got back so we climbed up 7 flights of stairs. Savanna wasn't even breathing hard - she makes me sick! :-) We then left about 8:45 to go on the Murder Afloat cruise. That was a lot of fun, Matt had it figured out but he didn't fill out a card because he didn't think he was right. I wasn't feeling well so I really didn't participate too much but it was fun watching my family enjoy themselves trying to figure out the mystery. Tomorrow we head to Orlando and Ryan will be joining us tomorrow night. Savanna doesn't have any dance stuff tomorrow so we are hoping to get there early enough to spend some time at one of the parks - Universal parks. We bought our tickets at MWR and they are good for a week - unlimited visits to two of the parks. We have about a 5 hour drive tomorrow. Until tomorrow night...

Savannah, GA Day 1 - Factor's Walk

The picture of Savanna waving has a story behind it. We had walked all the way down the street and then back again and we turned around to where we started from. We discovered that if we had walked one more block we would have seen the famous statue of the little girl waving. No one wanted to walk all the way back so Savanna said "here, here's a little girl waving". So I made her recreate it for me to take the picture. They aren't out of the woods, I will get the picture of the REAL little girl waving!

Savannah, GA Day 1 - Lady and Sons

Savannah, GA Day 1 - Swimming

Savannah, GA Day 1

We arrived last night about 10:30 pm. We hated leaving our babies at the kennel but we didn't have any choice. It took us 9 1/2 hours to get here which is longer than we thought.

This morning after breakfast at the motel, Brad and I walked down to the Lady and Sons to try to get a time for lunch. The Lady and Sons is the restaurant that Paula Deen owns here and her sons Jamie and Bobby run it. The lady in front of us in line said that she had been trying for 4 days to get a time and that made us wonder if we were going to be able to get in at all. But, we lucked out and got a time of 2:15. So, we headed back to the hotel where the kids were in the pool. We decided to swim until time to leave for lunch. We walked down for lunch and we loved the food. We ate on the third floor, Brad asked our waiter if Jamie or Bobby were there and he said that Jamie was on the first floor but we never saw him. We thought about complaining about our food so that we could ask to speak to the manager but we didn't :-) We then came upstairs and crashed for an hour because we were all so full we could barely move. When we got up we walked across the street down to Factor's Walk and went into some of the little shops and I took a few pictures. We got signed up to take a Ghostly Trolley tour this evening. That was at 10:00 so we just hung out at the room until then because none of us were hungry yet. The tour was pretty good - not very "ghostly" but interesting stories were told so we were entertained.

Tomorrow we are going on the "ON/OFF" tour where you ride the trolley all day and see the sights. We are signed up for a "Murder Afloat" cruise tomorrow night which is one of those murder mystery things. It is pretty hot and humid here but not nearly as bad as it could be at this time of year. Until tomorrow night...

Pool time with Claire

We didn't have much luck at the YMCA pool (they closed the kiddie pool shortly after we got there) so we bought a little pool for Claire to play in in the backyard. They had a good time. Roxie wasn't too thrilled with it though.

Savanna with Claire and Jennifer