We had a weekend off, and on a very untypical Mellinger "plan everything down to each hour" whim, we decided to Priceline a hotel and go to Savannah over the weekend. We drove 3 hours to get there.
For lunch, we used Yelp and Trip Advisor to find a new restaurant to try out. We found:
It's was a small bakery with five tables. We drooled over the dozen of sweet and savory pies in the glass, and they warmed up what we ordered. Voila! We had a very simple and filling lunch.
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| Here's pork and apple pastry. Hope wanted to try a sweet/savory type, and it was OK. A bit on the bland side. Had to add a bunch of salt. |
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| And a chicken curry. This was sooo good. No salt needed. |
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Paxton wanted to try a more traditional British meal: steak and ale. It wasn't too bad, but it was definitely upstaged by the curry pie. Our mouths water as we think about this place. It was pretty tasty...indeed.
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Our first stop: We got our our alligator glasses, but since it was in the 30's, those reptiles were no where in site. We did run into several teals, mallards, egrets, blue herons, and several black colored this and red colored thats. Oh, if we had our wonderful friend, Jane, who was such an aviary enthusiast with us, she could have told us every name of every bird and plant that we ran into that afternoon.
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| A blue heron decided to fly by our car and hang out for a while. He waited for Paxton to take a bunch of pics before flying off. He was definitely a hammy heron. |
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Into the marshes of Mordor. Gollum!!! This is a typical swamp in Savannah. Alligators probably hang out here in the summer.
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After checking into our hotel, we walked over to a popular seafood market, called "Seafood Market" and ordered some fried fish and shrimp and...
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Low Country Boil: crab, shrimp, sausage, potes, corn boiled in a garlic butter sauce. More weight gainage here.
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A drive around the back parts of Savannah. Here's a typical oak with Spanish moss growing on it. Very cool.
Savannah's downtown district, we see so many old oaks and Spanish moss; it's a very romantic town.
Savannah's many parks
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| A cobble stoned pathway and wall in Savannah. |
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It's interesting to think of all the adventures these stairs must have seen...
Downtown Savannah, similar in many ways to New Orleans. A tour guide said that much of the iron works is similar to New Orleans but there is definitely a different feel in Savannah. It's not dark, as there is no VooDoo history here. Yes, there are haunted stories, but most people enjoy the richness of Savannah's age, not the ghosts of the past.
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| John Wesley started here. We walked by his church but we were not sure it was open at the time. |
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The famous fountain on Forsyth Park that symbolizes quintessential Savannah. What a very neat town.
We got to eat at the Olde Pink House, where Thomas Jefferson and George Washington once visited. This place holds the first dumb waiter in the USA and was the first bank in Georgia, and yes, a "ghost" lives there, too, though we didn't see him.
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The Kids wanted to check out the free ferry that cruised about Savannah River. It was pretty fun.
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At the recommendation of friend, Shan, we decided to visit Tybee Island for a few hours before heading back home. It was a fairly cold day, 50s, but people were still out, walking the beach, playing in the water. The kids wanted to get their feet wet and run in the sand. It was a nice day, though we never saw the sun. This is definitely a place to return to.
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