Savannah, GA

One of the perks of Dave traveling is that I get to go visit him for free! Last weekend we decided to take full advantage of this and we planned a fun trip to Savannah, GA. There are a few interesting things that I learned about Savannah while I was there. First, I had no idea that Savannah is very historic. It is a civil war town and the buildings are just gorgeous! Along with this though, I found out that the city is the 2nd most haunted city in the U.S. which really creeped me out...especially since we were staying in a very old hotel. Our hotel was used as an old civil war hospital. It was beautiful with all of its original flooring and doors....yet very creepy. Dave and I took a tour of the city and of course it poured rain the entire weekend we were there. Here are some of the pictures of our hotel and on the tour.

This is a picture of the outside of our hotel. There were several wedding receptions taking place in the hotel. Savannah is also known for having beautiful squares everywhere. In fact, one of these squares is featured in the movie, Forest Gump, where Tom Hanks is sitting and waiting for the bus to come.

This is not our hotel, just a restored house that is very very old!

While on the tour we also stopped by a cathedral that was built in Savannah. This cathedral was gorgeous and the stain glass windows were just unbelievable. Here are a few pictures from inside the church.





The next day Dave had planned for us to go to an island right off of Florida and only 20 mins. from Savannah. Of course, the next day it rained even harder!!! The island itself was quite unusual and we really had no interest in hanging out there for very long. Here is a video of our driving experience!!! As you can see...most people were leaving the island while only a few odd folks like ourselves were driving towards the island.

We did not end up having an ocean view lunch...nor did we see an alligators :(

On the way back from the island we decided to not waste the trip so we decided to stop by a civil war fort. Dave loves the civil war and I have always wanted to visit civil war battlefields and forts. So, we stopped by and watched a video on the history of the fort and learned about a battle that took place there. We were able to walk around and see some of the actual battle wounds that the fort still showed. It was quite amazing!!