Savannah, GA

We have arrived in Savannah to the view of tons of poplar trees covered in Spanish moss,

when we got here we were told that there was a river just down the road where could take a nice stroll or fish, when we went to see it we were greeted with a muddy valley for miles, they have had so little rain here that it has dried up the river inlets.

Well if there's anything that I can say about Savannah it's that it is full of history, established in 1733 by General James Edward Oglethorpe, it was a British colony until the war for independence was won. since then it has been a leader in first's, Juliette Gorden Low Founder of the girl scouts of America lived here,

    the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences is here which was one of the first museums in the south, Savannah has one of the first African baptist churches, the third oldest Jewish synagogue in America, and the lady and sons restaurant owned by Paula Deen the first to use a cup of butter in every single dish they serve.
Savannah has been through many battles, had many great military visitor's and still boasts some of the oldest original squares, some of which are over 300 years old.
We went to see some of these and Forsyth Park was one of them, full of trees and picnicking families,

  some of the other squares included the Palaski Monument and across from one of the squares was the Christ Church, famous for being the place that President George Washington attended mass when he visited Savannah,

 The Spanish moss was everywhere we went except for to of the squares to which they had some very interesting stories involving a General Oglethrope, who apparently hated the stuff so much that he use to rip it down off of every tree that he came across, and the tell is that he is still doing it in those squares today, haha or it could be that the trees have grown so much that it blocks out all of the air flow, which they need to live, but whatever.

even though we were walking in 94' degree weather with extreme humidity we still really enjoyed our walk,

the Federal Hall building was on our walk to the river bay, it had beautiful 24K gold leaf on the dome that I was told was not original and was added in 1984, before that is was just copper.

On our way back to our car we noticed that there was a large amount of police across from where we were parked, some holding sniper rifles and shields, firefighters also arrived a short time later.
15 minutes later they all came out of a building with a cuffed man with a policeman holding tayzer cables, I'm not sure what the man did but he must have been really naughty.






 later in the week I went on a tasting tour where I got to get a little of savannah's culture through their fare.
the tour was awesome and gave us fun little tidbits about the town and its history.

One of the cute stories was of the terracotta griffin outside of one of the buildings, it is across from a main road and one evening a boozed up driver decided not to turn and ran right into it completely destroying it, they recreated it from photos that tourists had taken and built it this time out of concrete as well as placing a fence around part of it, unfortunately since it was built out of concrete it settled and not sort of leans to one side and the expression on its face looks like it is scared to be facing traffic fence or not.

All in all our trip has been nice though I would definitely not want to live here it was nice to visit.
So now we say goodbye to Savannah and continue our journey, until next time.