Taste of South

This morning was perfect. It was sunny and breezy the perfect weather to go on an Old Town Trolley Tour. These were lovely green and orange trolley's that took you around Savannah and gave you the history of it. You could get on and get off as many times as you would like and we got off many times and walked around many, many blocks. All while walking around in flip flops. Myself, not my husband.

So my blog today will be taking you back in history and showing you some of the sites that we deemed worthy of pictures. Here is the first one. This church is where Woodrow Wilson got married to his first wife and also is about a block away from where Forrest Gump sat on his bench and said "Life is like a box of chocolates" It was so funny, every once in a while you were the trolley conductor yell "Run Forrest, Run" and here would come a guy in khaki pants, blue shirt, red hat, carrying a suitcase running from down the street.

This is the house where Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts lived.

This isn't really a historic site, but it is Adam making sure the sun dial is right on time. Please note that he is wearing his TS Performance shirt with two skulls on it, but won't go on a ghost tour because ghosts scare him. Funny how irony plays a role in your everyday life.

This is St. John's Cathedral. A very old and very breathtaking church. The outside of it was amazing but when you walked in.

 It literally took my breath away. It looked so holy and you felt in awe to stand inside of it.

 This was in the balcony of the church. It was a massive pipe organ. I would have loved to hear it play.

This really doesn't have any historic value, but was where Grace King Bichon aka Julia Roberts saw her husband cheating on her with another woman in the movie "Something to Talk About"

We ate lunch at this little Tavern, it was originally the Cotton Exchange for Savannah. They had sandwiches and soups. As usual, very good. We also found this amazing candy shop that let us taste pralines. Yummy! Adam bought some of those while I stuck to chocolate covered oreos.

We sat by the river for a while this afternoon and saw this massive barge come through. It makes you wonder how something so huge can stay afloat. It looked like it barely cleared the bridge that connects Georgia to South Carolina.

We have arrived at Charleston and are heading out to a plantation tomorrow.  I am also trying to talk Adam into going to one that makes tea, I think that would be fascinating.






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