What a crazy, busy weekend! We got off work Friday, packed and headed to Savannah. Made pretty good time but ended up staying up until 2am visiting. Ron's dad lives there and this was the first time we met his new girlfriend, Sherry, who recently moved in.
Saturday we got up early and he cooked us all a big homemade breakfast. These Bowyer guys sure know how to cook! Then we headed over to Bonaventure Cemetery (part of the movie, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was filmed there). Was neat looking at the old graves, it was a huge place and we only saw one section of it. Then we went to Fort Pulaski. They had movie props all set up around the fort for the new movie, Conspirator, that is directed by Robert Redford and coming out next year. (The movie plot: In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice-President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt: her own son.) We saw the gallows that they had built for the part of the movie where Mary Surratt was hung. The most interesting part of it was seeing the back wall of the fort...there are still huge craters in the brick from cannon balls! It had a moat around the whole fort, but a moat doesn't do much good against cannons! LeAnne of course just loved the history of it all, especially considering it was in the Civil War era. We had lunch at The Crab Shack on Tybee Island. The tables had holes in the center of them with trash cans underneath, so as we ate our low country boil we could just shove the shells and corn cobs and trash into the hole. Told Ron I wanted a table like that at home. We could eat on paper plates and after dinner everyone could just shove their trash in the hole and clean up would be a snap! They also had a mini alligator farm there and you could feed them while waiting on your table. It was a neat place. After lunch we all climbed the lighthouse on Tybee Island and the kids got certificates showing that they had climbed it. Toured this naval museum that was across the street from the lighthouse and got to use a real periscope from a WWII era ship. Then it was down to the beach to put our toes in the sand and the ocean. It was quite warm outside, but the water was freezing! Shopped at some of the little shops there on the island. Afterward, we headed back toward Savannah and went to eat dinner at Love's Seafood in King's Ferry on the Ogeechee River. (they filmed part of Forrest Gump there) The lady told us the wait was about 30-40 minutes...she lied! We ended up being there about 3 hours and the food wasn't that great either. James Stephen had alligator, I had mahi-mahi. Surprising since it was such a high rated place on the internet. But "Big Buddy" kept us entertained, or embarrassed us according to LeAnne.
Sunday we got up and ate in downtown Savannah at a place called Clary's Cafe on Abercorn. (it was in the movie, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) The best breakfast! Plus it had outdoor tables so we took our dogs, Barkley, our yorki-poo and Sadie, their chocolate lab. The waitress even brought out doggy treats for them to eat. On River St. we walked the dogs and went in some of the stores that had a "dogs welcome" sign on the door. I think Barkley really enjoyed it. It is a very dog-friendly city. Got some warm, fresh pecan pralines from River St. Sweets...YUM! From there we headed on down to Jacksonville to go to Alexander's 2nd birthday party. (Jonathan Bowyer's son, our nephew) We saw a lot of family that we haven't seen in a while including Ron's cousin Shane, his wife and their brand new baby girl. Unfortuneately though, Ron and I had to be back at work Monday morning....so back on the road again and got in late Sunday. Like I said...a super packed, busy weekend!!
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