Monday, April 03, 2006
Weekend In Savannah
What a great weekend. Stacey and I met on Friday evening in Savannah, GA to celebrate a second anniversary of sorts, the fact that we have survived 2 years together. For those who aren’t familiar with Savannah, it’s a beautiful, romantic, historic party town. They certainly know how to do things right there. The tour busses look like old trolley cars and there are horse drawn carriages everywhere. The entire town is built on a plan drawn up in the early 1700’s and that plan is still used today. It’s a series of squares, initially 24, I believe. The historic district is full of small parks and really old houses (for the US anyway). Huge, beautiful, ancient trees are everywhere with Spanish moss hanging from all the branches. The riverfront area and an area know as the Marketplace is where the partying goes on. Wonderful restaurants, great bars, all kinds of live music, rock, blues, jazz, etc. makes for lots to do there. There are stores everywhere for those who like to shop. For those into history, architecture, ghost tours, etc there is a myriad of ways to tour. We saw tour busses and horse drawn carriages, both large and small, pedal cabs, three weeled two person scooters, a large Hearst with the top removed and seating raised so that people were sitting with their heads ouside and even saw a segway tour group.
We stayed at the Hampton Inn & Suites, which I highly recommend to anyone. Friday night, after settling into the hotel we took off on foot and explored the riverfront area, window-shopping while heading to Bernie’s Raw Bar and Seafood Restaurant. Turned out to be a great little place with good food and a big karaoke party going on with a group of service men, their dates and family… Karaoke isn’t our thing so we went down the street to another place with a live band. They were a really good cover band so we stayed there a while. Later we ended up in a local’s bar and eventually made it back to the room…
Saturday morning we went shopping. Stacey wanted something from Savannah for the house and was on a mission to find it. After walking a long busy street we flagged down a pedal cab, a bicycle rickshaw type transport and had her take us back to River Street. We went through a bunch of shops and Stacey couldn’t decide on what she wanted but had her eye on a print we saw at one shop. We decided to find the local American Legion Post that was across town, called the pedal cab girl to pick us up and she rode us there. Unfortunately, the Legion wasn’t open until 4:00 PM and it was not yet 2:00 so we got back on the bike and had Lori take us somewhere for a cold beer and some lunch close to where she had picked us up. We went to an English Pub, sat out front and had Scotch Eggs and baked Brie. From there we wandered back toward the hotel, did some more shopping along the way and then settled into a Sports Bar for a couple more cold beer’s. While there I called that shop that we had been in earlier and bought a beautiful framed, probably overpriced, print for the bedroom that Stacey had expressed an interest in. Stacey was happy and I was sure I would be rewarded later for my wonderful generosity…
We wandered back to the hotel to rest up a bit for the evening that I had planned for us. Stacey didn’t know what plans I had made and I wasn’t talking. We walked a couple blocks from the hotel and met up with a private carriage for an evening tour of the district with a bottle of wine. After the carriage ride we were dropped off at Alligator Soul for dinner. The food was good, actually excellent, but the service was really shoddy. We didn’t let that deter us or spoil our night. We went bar hopping after dinner and started at Savannah Blues, a great little bar with good music and stayed there for a set. Went to another place called Mercury Lounge that had an even better blues band than the first place. We wandered with some people we met to another bar that ended up being the local’s bar we were in the evening before but there was no music so we ended up back at the Mercury Lounge until the band quit playing…
Saturday we went down the street to a Mexican Restaurant for lunch then over to Loco’s Sports Bar to watch some of the race before heading back to Deland and Atlanta…
We had a wonderful weekend and really seemed to put some problems that had been lingering in our relationship behind us, at least for the time being, hopefully forever.
We stayed at the Hampton Inn & Suites, which I highly recommend to anyone. Friday night, after settling into the hotel we took off on foot and explored the riverfront area, window-shopping while heading to Bernie’s Raw Bar and Seafood Restaurant. Turned out to be a great little place with good food and a big karaoke party going on with a group of service men, their dates and family… Karaoke isn’t our thing so we went down the street to another place with a live band. They were a really good cover band so we stayed there a while. Later we ended up in a local’s bar and eventually made it back to the room…
Saturday morning we went shopping. Stacey wanted something from Savannah for the house and was on a mission to find it. After walking a long busy street we flagged down a pedal cab, a bicycle rickshaw type transport and had her take us back to River Street. We went through a bunch of shops and Stacey couldn’t decide on what she wanted but had her eye on a print we saw at one shop. We decided to find the local American Legion Post that was across town, called the pedal cab girl to pick us up and she rode us there. Unfortunately, the Legion wasn’t open until 4:00 PM and it was not yet 2:00 so we got back on the bike and had Lori take us somewhere for a cold beer and some lunch close to where she had picked us up. We went to an English Pub, sat out front and had Scotch Eggs and baked Brie. From there we wandered back toward the hotel, did some more shopping along the way and then settled into a Sports Bar for a couple more cold beer’s. While there I called that shop that we had been in earlier and bought a beautiful framed, probably overpriced, print for the bedroom that Stacey had expressed an interest in. Stacey was happy and I was sure I would be rewarded later for my wonderful generosity…
We wandered back to the hotel to rest up a bit for the evening that I had planned for us. Stacey didn’t know what plans I had made and I wasn’t talking. We walked a couple blocks from the hotel and met up with a private carriage for an evening tour of the district with a bottle of wine. After the carriage ride we were dropped off at Alligator Soul for dinner. The food was good, actually excellent, but the service was really shoddy. We didn’t let that deter us or spoil our night. We went bar hopping after dinner and started at Savannah Blues, a great little bar with good music and stayed there for a set. Went to another place called Mercury Lounge that had an even better blues band than the first place. We wandered with some people we met to another bar that ended up being the local’s bar we were in the evening before but there was no music so we ended up back at the Mercury Lounge until the band quit playing…
Saturday we went down the street to a Mexican Restaurant for lunch then over to Loco’s Sports Bar to watch some of the race before heading back to Deland and Atlanta…
We had a wonderful weekend and really seemed to put some problems that had been lingering in our relationship behind us, at least for the time being, hopefully forever.
