Hey Y'all!

Paula Deen says “Everyday you wake up on the right side of the dirt is a good one,” and I agree, but she forgot to mention how good that day can be if you wake up in Savannah. The city is absolutely breathtaking. Most of the buildings in the historic district were built in the 1800s, although they are beautifully up kept not showing their age. Most of the homes have beautiful wrought iron gates, each with their own unique designs. The town now has 22 squares, the other 2 squares were used to build government buildings, our favorite part about that being Liberty Square that now holds the city jail. The town’s remaining squares are beautifully canopied by live oak trees covered in Spanish moss.

Our hotel, which was within walking distance of the historic district, told us about The Old Savannah Tour that we decided to take. The tour takes about an hour and a half and showed us all of the historic district and some of the Victorian district, guided by extremely knowledgeable guides. It was the best thing we did, because it gave us a crash course on the city and saved us a lot of time. It’s also no accident that down the street from our hotel, was the only brewery in Savannah, Moon River Brewing Company. We each got a flight to sample all 7 of their beers. We really liked all of them, but loved the Slo-vannah (American Pale Ale) and the Swamp Fox (India Pale Ale). It’s a shame the only place you can get their beer is at their brewpub.

After our tour of Savannah, we went to Lady and Sons for dinner. Larry decided to get the buffet while I got fried green tomatoes. Larry loved the buffet but I was really disappointed with the fried green tomatoes. They were good, but tasted like eggplant cutlets not tomatoes! There was a little boy sitting with his family in the table next to ours and I could tell he just wanted to get into trouble. Every time Larry would go up to the buffet, he would turn around in his seat, face me and start blowing raspberries at me! When Larry would come back, he would stop and turn back around. The last time he did it, he was also screaming SO loud and finally his mom told him to turn around and stop bothering me. All of this before Larry came back, making me look like a crazy person. I guess his plan worked :) The next day we went to the gimmicky Pirate’s House restaurant. We both got the buffet which was good but we agreed that nothing compared to Lady and Sons. We also went to Leopold’s ice cream, or as our crazy, “straight” tour guide calls it: “Sinful! Sinful Sinful!" We both tried a bunch of flavors before choosing coconut with strawberry (Larry) and coconut with banana (Jules). Delicious.

We stopped at a bar, Jens and Friends for happy hour. They make the craziest cocktails ever, with marshmallow fluff, caramel sauce, snickers and many other kinds. We only ordered a few local beers but loved watching the bartender make up all of these crazy drinks. We were talking to the bartender and her friend and they suggested a few other places we should go to.  That’s also when we found out Georgia doesn’t have an open container law! We took two drinks to go, because we could, and sat in the nearest square listening to a man play the flute.  Next, we went to the roof top of the Bohemian Hotel to watch the sunset, as was recommended to us. The view was beautiful and we stayed until the sun set.