It's good!

Everywhere you go in Savannah, they have this book. It's in all the gift shops, restaurants, and even in some of the clothing stores. I guess this book was on the best sellers list for years awhile back. I made Jeremy take me to the Bonventure cemetary cause that is where the headstone that is on the cover of this book was. I say "was" because they had to move it. Because of the popularity of the book, people were going to the cemetary and disturbing the grave sites. Apparently this was a real headstone and the family of the person buried there wasn't too happy about all the tourists going there and disturbing their loved ones burial place. The statue has since been moved to a museum in Savannah.

So I started reading this book this morning. So far I am intrigued. It's very good. Even better cause I was just there and recognize everywhere they are talking about. While we were on our trolley tour the tour guide stopped in front of this house and said that this was the Mercer House from the book. So I took a picture and its cool to be able to picture a place while your reading about it.

I'll let you know what I think when I'm done. In the meantime if you've read it let me know what you thought about it.

Savannah Day 2

I would've come to Savannah just for these little beauties. Nobody told me that there are candy shops on every corner with delicious fresh and warm pralines, just waiting for me to buy them. I bought some with intentions of bringing them home to the kids but what was I thinking, they won't be fresh on Monday when they can eat them. So I had to eat them. Maybe I'll get some more tomorrow before I come home.....

This place is gorgeous. The maple trees covered in spanish moss are so pretty. I did learn today to "look but don't touch", apparently spanish moss is covered in chiggers.

Think ticks or lice, ewwwww.

So I've been looking and admiring and as much as I'd love to bring some home to MI you couldn't pay me to touch it. My friend Kelli had chiggers once, you should ask her about them, its a great story.

Jeremy had school Friday so I had the day to myself. Theres something about the freedom to go explore, or have lunch, or sit on a bench and read all by yourself that I wish I could enjoy more. Don't get me wrong I had a wonderful day but I kept feeling like I needed to be waiting for somebody or following a schedule. I went to Juliette Lowe's childhood home. She's the lady that started girl scouts. I didn't do the tour, just checked out the gift shop and house.
The picture below is the front of her house.

Below is one of the beautiful churches. There are so many of them. This is the church that is in the beginning of the Forrest Gump movie when the feather falls out of the sky. Also the tallest steeple in Savannah.


I also did a lot of window shopping. I don't think I bought a thing. boooo
The picture below was my favorite store. I spent at least a hour in here. There was so much to see. It was mostly kitchen gadgets but also a lot of different things. Strange things like every kind of salt and pepper shakers you could think of, change purses in the shapes of potato chip bags, ice cube trays in every shape you could think of... funny sayings on signs, napkins, plates, towels, purses, bags, etc.
The store was huge with high ceilings and gorgeous woodwork.


When Jeremy got home from school we headed to Bonaventure Cemetary. Apparently it is famous from the movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
I just love old cemeteries, Jeremy thought I was nuts to want to go there but he went.
I think once we were there he thought it was pretty cool. The picture below is a picture of one of the tombstones, it was really old. Doesn't it look like a face on it. The picture doesn't do it justice, it was kinda freaky. We walked around a little bit and then we took off to Tybee Island.


I didn't learn until after we left Tybee that this is where Miley filmed The Last Song. Apparently Sandra Bullock has a place out there too. It was a nice little tourist town.



I put my hands in the Atlantic Ocean, it was cold.

The water wasn't really that pretty, kinda brown. But it was windy and it did look pretty churned up. I do think that Lake Michigan is prettier.

After we left here Jeremy wanted to take me to a place called Huc a poos.

They had awesome pizza, the picture below is ONE piece. I had to cut it to eat it. $4 a slice and that slice is 1/4 of a pizza at least. It was very good. The bar was neat, it had stuff everywhere...old signs, dollar bills stapled to the ceiling, an old gas pump, recliners, guns, etc. I do compare it to Mahuffers in FL but a bit tamer. Let's just say I would take Jacob and Sarah to this place but I wouldn't allow them in Mahuffers. Huc A Poos was cleaner too, I wasn't afraid to sit down. I'm sure that is only because they serve food. I wouldn't touch anything made at Mahuffers.

So far this trip this is the only photo of the two of us. haha

Kinda hard when there's noone to take the photos.

Our last stop of the night was to Abe's on Lincoln. It is a little hole in the wall bar right across the street from our hotel. If I were Jeremy and I was alone here for a month, I'm pretty sure I would be hanging out here a lot. The bar maid was young and really nice. Her friend was in there with his dog who seemed to be a regular patron on the bar.

We're lame.

We've been back to the hotel by 9 each night and asleep by 10.

We're old.

Today is Saturday and I'll blog about today later but here's a little preview....we went on a trolley tour ride today (riding not walking) and now we're back in the hotel to "rest" cause we have a haunted city tour planned for tonight at 9.

Man I hope we can stay awake for it.

Day 1 Savannah

The first day started out very strange. I flew out from Detroit on Delta and there were only 10 of us on the plane. I've never been on a plane that wasn't full or almost full. There were 2 very loud very southern women on the flight that thought since there were only 1o of us that we should be the best of friends, including our flight attendant. They wanted to know where everyone was from, how old we were, what we did for a living, and pretty much anything else about us short of our social security numbers. The flight attendant loved us so much that the drinks were flowing, the FREE drinks, YES!! It was too much for me. LOL All I could think about was Mesha, my dear friend that would have DIED if she was in the middle of this new friendship. Thank God about halfway through the two southerners figured about that we weren't as into this friendship as they were and quit asking us questions. These two now have a trip to Italy planned for the spring of 2013. They did not know each other before this flight and they exchanged addresses, phone numbers and bra sizes. They were so into each other that one of them is meeting the other one this Saturday at "the Cathedral" to be her plus 1 at a wedding she's going to.....weird??? I realize I'm babbling but this was one of the weirdest situations I have ever been in, twilight zone.

not our hotel, just an awesome building

Once I got to Savannah (Jeremy picked me up...no taxi, yea) I had to find the hotel. UGH

I dropped him off at school and took off to find Bay St. It was actually pretty easy. I got my key changed into shorts and flip flops and went to lunch, yes by myself. That was tough. Luckily I had my book so I just read for a little bit. How nice, peace and quiet. After lunch I found my way down to the river and walked along the water. The weather was wonderful, 73.

I had to go get Jeremy from school, easy right? NOT SO MUCH. I had to get him at 4 and it takes 25 minutes to get there. I was worried about getting lost so I left at 3. I got lost. He left his phone in the car so I couldn't call him. Long story short the lady at the front desk at his school had to guide me to him and I showed up at 4:30. Needless to say Jeremy wasn't too pleased when I pulled up. Especially since today was the day they got out early and he had been waiting for me since 330. His fault for forgetting his phone, right?

None of this would be a big deal except we had dinner reservations at Paula Deen's restaurant, Lady and Sons, at 5. I think it must be hard to get to get reservations cause there were a lot of people standing around and it was kinda busy. With all that mess we did make it just a few minutes late and had a wonderful meal.
We're old...after dinner we came back to the hotel so Jeremy could do homework and I could sleep. I'm tired, we'll be sleeping by 9 tonight lol.

Here's to hoping I can paint the town all by myself tomorrow while he's at school. Also here's to hoping I remember to take some more photos. I feel kinda silly being by myself and whipping out my camera. Maybe I'll take some lovely self portraits, haha stay tuned!