Showing posts with label Savannah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Savannah. Show all posts

Sunday, March 15, 2009

A Little Bit More

Here are just a few more photos of Savannah:The Girl Scouts began in Savannah which is totally cool, in my opinion. I was Girl Scout paparazzi! :) They were all really cute. We had a nightmare-ish trip home but we tried to make the most of it. How often do you get to pose on the runway?I guess it wasn't really the runway, but I don't know what this place is called. I think that's about it on Savannah... for now!Bye!

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Live Oaks

As you can probably tell from previous posts, I pretty much went bananas over the live oaks in Savannah! I think they're beautiful, calm, eerie, and super cool! We drove down lots of streets like this: The Wormsloe Estate has a driveway lined with live oaks:It's amazing and definitely a little scary! Here is the biggest live oak in Savannah: And here is my very own live oak: Sweetie!

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Eating in Savannah

Raf and I had a little trouble choosing where to eat in Savannah, but we ended up eating really good food! We had delicious homemade ice cream at Leopold's:I had strawberry shortcake and Raf had strawberry:We had dinner at The Crab Shack on Tybee Island. It was the closest we got to southern food, I think. We ate delicious crab and a "Low Country Boil" which was sausage, potatoes, corn, and shrimp.It was pretty Disney World-ish but still really cool and fun. They have live baby alligators (which you can see in previous posts) and a deck on the water.We had a delicious lunch at Clary's, where the man with the flies on strings and the vile of poison ate every day in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It was really nice to eat outside. Especially with a sweetie d-dog nearby!Raf and french toast and I had cheese blintzes. Everything was super good and fun and relaxed!
You can see a photo of Raf and me eating there in this post!

Tybee Island

Tybee Island is near Savannah and has just as much charm. The beaches are very beautiful too. Here is the Tybee Island Light House:Pretty stripes! Palm trees on beaches are a rare sight for me so I was very excited! The island is full of lots of pretty little cottages. I loved all of the colors and plants. Raf thought it was a good place to take a nap::) Cutie. As you can see, it wasn't very warm. I wore 2 sweaters, my vest, and gloves! I still like the beach in cold weather, so I was happy. (And so was Raf.)The GPS wanted us to do this:We didn't. :)

Savannah Houses

There were some super cool houses in Savannah. Here are a few of my favorites: Lots of ivy, even on the stairs! This one was in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil:Oooohh! Of course I liked the purple house! This one is also a cool color:Lots of houses in Savannah are haunted, but I'm not sure which ones are. I wouldn't want to live in one, but I would like to live on a street like this:I think everything about Savannah is friendly. The people were all super nice and I think even the streets look welcoming! I wish Boston was a little more like that.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Savannah Squares

As you may know, Savannah is a city organized around many squares. They are beautiful little parks and we went on a long walk to all of them! We started at Forsyth Park, which is actually not a square, but it is really nice and has the famous fountain: It also has lots of beautiful plants and paths lined with live oaks. There was a chess/checker board is one of the paths:Cool, right? Thank you Raf for the lovely posing! Then we continued on to the squares. Some of them had really beautiful flowers which I was excited to see since it's still going be a long time until we have blooming here:
Unfortunately, I don't remember which square was which because we saw so many! I'm only including photos of a few. Some of them had really cool fountains:
The squares really make Savannah a beautiful city. I kept telling Raf, "It even smells good here!" I think it was all of the plants. I hope you're enjoying all of my Savannah posts. As you can probably tell, I REALLY loved Savannah! Stay tuned for more!

Friday, March 6, 2009

Isle of Hope

Rafael and I drove around the Isle of Hope which is a community near Savannah on the water. As you probably could have guessed, I loved it!It was beautiful and looked unlike any place I've ever been, but the calm atmosphere reminded me a little of where my grandparents live in New York. Plus, the live oaks could have been willows! :)
Of course, there's no palm trees in New York (I don't think so at least).Some of the houses we big and some were small but none of them seemed new and they were all really cool! The architecture was totally different than here, the houses even seemed sort of friendly! Maybe it was just all the flowers and green though.... I think I'm sick of winter. :)

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Bonaventure Cemetery

I loved our trip so much and I want to share photos Raf and I took of all of the beautiful places we saw, so I'm just going to keep posting about Savannah for awhile! I hope nobody minds. :)

I think Bonaventure Cemetery was the coolest place we went. It was so beautiful and a little bit scary. It's full of graves/sculptures, live oaks with Spanish moss, palm trees, and rose bushes.The cemetery is along a marshy river which is also cool. You can see it in the background of this picture a little:

I just loved all of the live oaks in Savannah! I took as many photos of them as possible. I might do a live oak post later. :)

I thought this statue was eerie and beautiful:

Fleur de lis or skulls?

And here's Raf and me looking all touristy! :)The first photo in the post below was also taken at Bonaventure Cemetery.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Savannah

Rafael took me to Savannah this weekend for a Valentine's Day gift! It was really, really fun. I loved it there! I have lots of photos to share, but it's late and I'm sleepy now so here are just a few:I can't wait to tell you more about it! Thank you so much lovey Raf!

PS I am back from my blog hiatus and ready to have fun and post! (and this time I mean it!)