Savannah Trip

Ryan and I finally had a weekend away from the kids. We bribed my parents to come spend some quality time with the kids and animals so we could go to Savannah. The drive up was pretty uneventful with the exception of a terrible lunch (Denny's truck stop). Never order non-breakfast food at a Denny's. Ick! We knew after that meal we would not have to raise the standards by much to have a good meal.

We scored a great room at our hotel. Top floor, corner suite, tiny balcony, nice views. After checking in we started walking the historic district. We did the usual touristy stuff (walked up and down River Street-several times, tourist shopping, drinks, food, trolley tour, ghost tour, museums, etc.).More details on a couple of those in a bit.

The vacation was kicked off with drinks on the patio bar. The weather was perfect. Low 80's, no humidity. We met some local bar owners and listened to a few suggestions. One led to lunch on Saturday (good choice) -The Crab Shack on Tybee Island and the other led to 40 oz beers on Friday night at their bar (bad choice) - fed my terrible hangover.

A co-worker recommended we eat at two places (The Cotton Exchange and the Old Pink House). We hit up The Cotton Exchange the first night and the Old Pink House the next night. It was Jazz Fest the weekend we were in town so we walked down to the large park to check it out. Jazz is not for us. We quickly headed back in search of other entertainment.

We stopped in some neat bars and found out on our trolley tour one was from a movie Julia Roberts was in. The tour was nice (sitting down) and informational. Definitely a nice way to learn a little more about the city. We decided to do a walking ghost tour that was recommended by the concierge. Epic fail! The guy was a history buff and told us it was 1.5 hours long. At the 2.5 hour mark we checked out. He could have told us half the info and it would have been cool.

We visited Fort Jackson, the train museum (pretty cool-we had a tour guide who made it worth while), a modern art museum (not cool-glad the lady screwed up our admission price because paying full price would have been a bigger let down), visited a historical house museum (interesting but afterwards, Ryan and I were trying to piece together some inconsistencies in the tour info), and did I mention lots of walking?

It was a great escape and the area was very pretty. I definitely recommend it as a place to visit.