Day 4: Savannah

Ok so now that I have time to sit I'll actually write my final blogs.  After breakfast, we headed out to Bonaventure Cemetery, my request I find cemeteries interesting probably due to my mom, since she would take me with her when I was little and she was doing genealogy work.   Anyway, finding it wasn't too hard with the help of Lee, just a little confusion about if we had to park and walk or could drive through.  With the heat and humidity if we hadn't been able to drive I have a feeling I would have been the only one walking in the cemetery.  Not sure how long we spent there but I was able to find all the graves I wanted to see.  Some of the markers and statues are just so haunting but beautiful.

Little Gracie

After the cemetery, which I'm sure Lis was ready to leave, we headed off to the trolley tour.  Now this tour was listed as being highly rated and had an on/off option which we thought would be great.  Free parking and we could do all the things we wanted to in Historic Savannah with not too much walking.  Well, not so much an on/off trolley tour, we get on and we are told we must take the whole 90 minute tour then get off and call to have mini buses pick us up to go to other points.  Needless to say we were not happy at all about this.  I have not had a chance to but I plan on writing a review and putting it up on the travel site I used to find the tour in the first place.  Anyway, taking pictures on this trolley was next to impossible at least with my older camera.  I would get something in frame and focused and we would fly around a corner and I would end up with a tree instead of a statue or building.  After getting off the trolley at the City Market, we call to have a bus pick us up to take us to the stop near the Mellow Mushroom.  Of course it takes two calls to have someone pick us up and we have to ride back to the parking lot first, wouldn't it have made more sense to take us to the stop in city first then to the lot on the outer edge of the city.

City Hall

Mercer House

Armstrong House

Most haunted house 432

Pirate House

Waving Girl

Finally, we arrive a few blocks from the Mellow Mushroom, loved this place and they were nice enough to check to make sure there was no MSG in the dressing I got on my lunch.  Also loved the murals, Alice in Wonderland, Yellow Submarine and a Salvador Dali like one with the Bird Girl statue.

Mellow Mushroom

Mellow Mushroom

Mellow Mushroom

Mellow Mushroom

The next stop on our walk was the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, which was beautiful inside and I know thrilled Lis, since it reminded her of the Basilica at Notre Dame.

St. John the Baptist 

Then we went to the Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the girl scouts, home.  We made it just in time for the last tour of the day.  It was a very quick tour and provided a brief history about her, but I thought it focused a lot on her artwork and not as much on the house it self.  The garden area had huge agave plant called "Joe Hoke" according to my plant expert, my mom.  After some purchases in the gift shop we were off to City Market yet again to call a mini bus to take us back to get the car so we could spend more time along the River Walk.  We did make a small detour so I would take my picture of Paula Dean's Restaurant.  

Juliette Gordon Low House

Agave "Joe Hoke"

Paula Dean's Restaurant

After picking up the car we drove down to the River Walk and tested the shocks in my car on the cobblestones.  Since by that point it was after 6 we didn't have to pay for parking we found a small lot near the restaurant, Kevin Barry's.  We walked around for awhile and I of course shopped.  Dinner was good I had Fish and Chips with malt vinegar, yum.  But then the real entertainment began, with a live Irish and other types of music, even a little Buddy Holly.  But the best part of the whole evening would be Lis having to give a demonstration of the hand motions that go with the song Unicorn.  We have video proof, see April's blog.  All and all even with the stupidly run trolley, it was a good day.  Much less spooky in the day time.