Sunday, April 4, 2010

Savannah

Mel and I took our first trip to Savannah this past weekend. We were invited by our friends Jeremy and Melissa to celebrate Jeremy's 28th birthday. After succesfully navigating an alternative route to Savannah due to traffic, we arrived at the Hyatt Regency on Bay Street. Since it wasn't the first time Jeremy and Melissa had visited, they staked out a sweet place right in the middle of the action for their return. Mel and I simply reaped the benefits of this inside information. After a quick bite to eat at Five Guys, we headed out to Sixpence Pub to meet our tour guide for the ghost pub crawl we had scheduled for that evening. During the night we enjoyed some good drinks and even better ghost stories. While they were entertaining, we of course dismissed them as pure fiction... that is until later on in the trip (more on that later). After the tour we "crawled" to a few more establishments of our own to grab a nightcap or three, before retiring to bed.

We got up at a decent hour Saturday, and headed out to breakfast at a New Orleans inspired restaurant on River Street called Huey's. We dined on some tasty omelets and beignets and then headed out to tour the city. Since it was a beautiful day we walked around for a couple hours taking in the sights. And no trip would be complete without a trip to a yarn store, which after some confusion we eventual found. After some much needed rest at the hotel, we headed out to the Olde Pink House for Jeremy's birthday dinner, where we had some great food in the beautifully kept atomosphere of an old mansion. Follwing a great meal, we headed out for drinks, where we found out that the ghost stories may not entirely be false.


Scanning through some of the pictures we had taken that trip Jeremy noticed the first of many encounters with the "Orb."


While we thought that the ghostly object was a trick from the lighting of the camera, it was hard to argue with the several pictures in different settings where the orb appeared - primarily around Jeremy. The orb even settled in an area on Jeremy too risque for this blog. Needless to say, it's easy to see why Savannah is a ghost town with a drinking problem. We grabbed a few more beverages before calling it a night; woke up the next morning (again hangover free), grabbed breakfast at Huey's again, then took off for home. It was an exteremly enjoyable weekend, and I'm sure we'll be back there soon.