The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia.....

...but there wasn't any hanging of an innocent man. Our last leg of our family trip to our beloved Disneyworld we stopped in Savannah, Georgia. We had orginially planned to drive to Charleston, SC but 6+ hours in the car after leaving Orlando didn't sound like the best idea (that and the fact that we didn't leave until 2pm). We stopped for lunch on the outskirts of Jacksonville and hoped that the restaurant we picked had free internet nearby.... We ended having to drive to a hotel down the street and parked in the parking lot while we searched for a hotel to stay at that night. I guess that's part of the fun, not making specific plans.

We found a reasonable hotel that was right in the historic district and plugged it into Lola (our Tomtom - thanks "RV") and we were off. As we got closer to Savannah and exits started flying past, it seemed that the hotel was still a good distance away. We got off at one of the last exits and again searched around for a wireless signal (4 hotels later ;) and found the correct address for the hotel in Savannah, and not in Hilton Head, SC (another 35 miles away!) Nice! :)

We had fun walking around the city that night and cruising the waterfront. The buildings are amazing and the history is very rich there. If you're looking for delicious homemade candies there are about 4 stores on the waterfront within 1/2 mile of each other that make amazing taffies and pecan pralines (and they offer many samples). The next morning, we wandered around the city, checked out Paula Deen's "street" with her store and restaurant, the historic cemetery and back down to the waterfront.

On the drive back home after leaving, I was reading through all the tourbooks that we found AFTER we wandered around the city and found some fun tours we'll have to try another time -- our first pick? The Haunted Savannah tour - a nighttime walking tour with a historic guide through old buildings/streets. Hopefully there'll be a next time - there's so much to see on the East coast!