Savannah, GA - Part 1 of 2

We ventured in to the south to celebrate Ian's cousin, Patrick, marrying his love, Lauren.  I'm so glad we were able to make it across the country and spend a few days in this very cool town.  I took a few photos on my phone but I'm also stealing a bunch from the web, so you can see what I saw.  =)

Downtown Savannah was the country's first planned city, and is made up of 22 park-squares.  Every square in the Historic District is surrounded by tons of original architecture and beautiful historic buildings.  Fun fact: most of downtown Savannah was built above cemeteries which is why the city is consider the most haunted in the US.

We kept missing the spook tours.  There was even one super awesome one where you rode in the back of a hertz.

We saw tons of Girl Scouts visiting the birthplace of the GS founder, Juliette Lowe, and celebrating 100 years of girl scouting goodness.  I wonder if there are never ending supplies of Thin Mints in Savannah??

River Street (running along the Savannah River) is the most touristy, happening spot.  Lots of souvenir shops, candy stores, bars and restaurants.

But anyway, back to my re-cap.

We flew in on Thursday night, checked in to our hotel (we were't cool enough to stay in one of the old houses) and went over to the In-Law's place (they were cool enough).  The groom and his dad were cooking up a Low Country Shrimp Boil.  Shrimp - sausage - corn - potato.  Yum Yum.

On Friday we walked all over town.  We hadn't figured out that the closer you get to the river, the more fun stuff there is to see.... and instead, we walked in the complete opposite direction.  But hey, at least we got to see a LOT of Savannah.  We stopped for lunch at a place Ian would call heaven.. a.k.a. The Distillery.  They had an extensive bottle list and my personal favorite, a "do not carry list".  ha!

"No Crap, Just Craft"

After lunch Ian's sister and her fiancee took BK for a bit while Ian and I putzed around River Street.  We got Ian's friend a b-day gift:

Later we went back and got cleaned up for dinner.  Ian's aunt and uncle made some bomb pasta before we all headed over for a post-rehearsal celebration and Moon River Brewery.  BK was nice and slept through most of it so we could enjoy a few brewskies and stuff our faces full of cheesecake and chocolate covered strawberries.

To Be Continued.....