Savannah

Having internet access recently has been tough to find! Currently we are in Oveido, Florida with the squeeze's grandmother, at the moment I'm taking advantage of the router at TA's home down the road (the squeeze's great aunt). 

Leaving Atlanta and entering Savannah was the strangest thing ever, two completely different landscapes! The city with its huge skyscrapers and crowded highway turned into palm trees and quaint brick buildings, the moment we reached Savannah I could tell immediately where we were. Our hotel was in the Historic District which is by the river, the style of architecture along the streets and endless heaps of Spanish Moss drooping from the trees made it look like it was time for Halloween. I loved the spooky vibe!

We walked for quite a ways after grabbing some real southern Po' Boys at the Cotton Exchange, it eventually got dark but we weren't ready to crawl back into bed. We saw several horse drawn carriages lined up along a brick road so we took advantage of a tour while it was dark out. This little guy's name is Robin, apparently he has an older brother named Batman, how adorable!

After our epic horse drawn carriage tour (which we learned that Savannah is basically built on top of a bunch of dead people) we stopped for some ice-cream at Leopold's, the honey almond cream was to die for! The ice-cream shop is right across the street from SCAD, apparently the school purchases properties in the city and fixes them up so they are active within the community. This also means that many random buildings have "SCAD" on them so at first we weren't sure what was part of the campus... I still don't think I figured it out.

The architecture here is beautiful! Every block has a "square" in the center which resembles a mini Central Park with a monument located in the middle. The foliage here is also beautiful, enormous aloe plants, large curvy trees, and piles of Spanish Moss looming overhead. Below is the Mercer Williams House, we're trying to find 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil' to watch so we can see the building in the movie. A murder happened in this home, but after taking the horse drawn carriage tour we learned that people killed one another in many of the buildings so it's really no surprise.

We loved Savannah! I would move here in a heart beat, even the coffee shops were adorable (this is from inside The Coffee Fox). I'm sad we only spent one day here, I feel like we could have walked around for days just soaking everything in. I think we should plan another visit, we still need to actually get to Austin though before we can make any more travel plans! After Savannah we traveled to Oveido, we are leaving tomorrow to head to Tallahassee for one night, then it's New Orleans, Houston, and finally Austin. I have about a million photos from our three days in Disney and Universal, those will all need to be separate posts once we have internet again. Phew!