Thursday, December 31 - New Year's Eve
After I went to the gym, we headed to Savannah to celebrate Christmas and New Year's with Ron's dad and Sherry. It was drizzly and foggy and a horrible day for travel. Before we even got out of Atlanta we got rear-ended on I-75. A lady hit an old man in a minivan who then hit us. Thankfully no real damage done and we just decided to not waste time calling the police, but to just keep traveling. The traffic was horrid and right in front of us that person had to swerve to keep from hitting the car in front of them. And then as we got over the hill there was another three car wreck, only they weren't as fortunate as we were and they had a flat-bed tow truck there. We finally got to Savannah around 6:00 pm. Freshened up a bit and headed to the Market Place downtown for some pizza at Vinnie Van Go-Go's. It turned out to be much warmer down there and was a beautiful night. They had a DJ, music and people throwing out party beads and shooting t-shirts from a t-shirt cannon. People, including lots of families and children, were dancing in the square to the music, under the light of the full (and blue) moon. Most of us got beads thrown to us and I caught a t-shirt. Went back to the condo to ring in the new year. Jonathan (Ron's brother), Melissa and their son, Alexander came up from Jacksonville. It was really pretty low key, we walked out to the dock, then stayed up until midnight and toasted in the New Year. This was the first year we let the kids have a glass of champagne. They disliked it as much as I do. It's more of a tradition than anything else.
Friday, January 1 - New Year's Day 2010
Wow, this decade has flown by! Seems not long ago everyone was in a tizzy about Y2K and whether all the computers would still work. Big Buddy and Sherry cooked us an awesome breakfast...Eggs Benedict. I went and checked out the neighborhood gym. Then Ron and I went shopping at one of the two malls and I got some new sweaters and a new scarf. Then our highlight of the day was finding a Blockbuster that was going out of business. All the DVD's were $2.99 each. We bought about ten of them. They were pretty new ones too, like Gran Turino, Spiderman 3 and Mall Cop. For dinner we had all the traditional "fixin's." Greens, black-eyed peas, ham plus corn, cornbread, fried okra and potato salad.
Saturday, January 2
Started the day with another great breakfast...pancakes, bacon, sausage and eggs. Then headed to downtown Savannah. We were going to tour the Juliet Lowe house and LeAnne even had her Girl Scout vest on, but it turned out they were closed until January 15. Big bummer. We did go to the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Boy, was it beautiful!! Plus it was a great chance to explain about Catholics some to the kids. They had questions about the candles, holy water, confessional and kneeling bench. James Stephen thought it was cool they had foot rests, so I showed them how to flip them down and use them as kneelers. LeAnne bought and lit a candle and said a prayer for someone, never told me who. It was still decorated for Christmas and had the most detailed Nativity scene I have ever seen. I took a lot of pictures, but none really show the true beauty of the place, or the quiet, peaceful feeling inside. We just sat on a bench for a while in quiet, just soaking it all in. The kids (ha, who am I fooling?)... I wanted to cross the bridge over the Savannah River into South Carolina. So we did that and it was an incredible view of River St. and downtown Savannah. Came back to the condo just as Chris, Melinda and their boys were arriving. For dinner we had a low country boil. Didn't realize that my kids loved crab legs, but they ate them up! After dinner, Sherry, Melinda and myself went to the other mall and I bought a couple more shirts.
Sunday, January 3
Got up and went to the gym. Came back in time for grits, sausage and biscuits and gravy. We hung around for a bit then headed back home. Couldn't believe how quickly our "long" weekend seemed to fly by!
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