Savannah and Tybee Island

We enjoyed a wonderful trip to Savannah and Tybee Island this past week with my parents and my niece and nephew, Morgan and Garet. We stayed at an awesome hotel right in the heart of the historic district on Bay Street, took the Oglethorpe Trolley tour and the Sorrel-Weed haunted tour, hung out and shopped on River Street, and ate fantastic food at The Cotton Exchange and The Pirate's House. On Tybee Island we climbed the 178 stairs to the top of Georgia's oldest lighthouse, enjoyed a ride on a Dolphin Boat tour, and ate the BEST, fresh seafood at The Crab Shack.

The kids at the top of the lighthouse


the view of the Atlantic Ocean


The Tybee Island lighthouse


Captain Mike's Dolphin Boat Tour
















Dinner at The Pirate's House - A portion of this haunted restaurant is the oldest standing structure in Georgia. After our dinner, a "pirate" gave us a tour around the restaurant to give the history of the place. It was really pretty cool. There is a tunnel underneath that was used to shanghai young sailors many years ago. Once they woke from their druken stupor, they could either become pirates or swim five miles in shark infested waters.






After our trolley tour, we went out sight seeing on foot to Forsyth Fountain and the many squares that make Savannah famous. A part of our tour included about a thirty minute torrential downpour. We ended up having so much fun in the rain and had the park to ourselves as a reward for our persistence.






Soaked to the bone...I do have clothes on. It's just strapless.




At the end of our trolley tour, we went shopping at Paris Market. The kids had so much fun in the basement of the shop looking at fun antiques like hundred year old bicycles (and playing with a few too). Wonder who wore this hat? Laurel or Hardy perhaps?






Some of the sights on our trolley tour...
The Catholic Cathedral of St. John-Baptist


The Waving Girl










The Sorrel-Weed haunted tour...the only scary part was how much our tour guide has spent in the tanning bed. YIKES!


River Street at Sunset
Mimi and Poppy




The kids on a VERY steep staircase leading from River Street to Bay Street










Garet and Sophie cooling off in the misters at the River Street Market


Morgan and Reagan doing the same




Mimi and Poppy are smitten to have all four grandchildren with them.




The kids loved watching the container ships and tug boats come down the Savannah River.