Last Day in Savannah

 Our family are masters of the short vacation.  We get there, get the sightseein' in and head home.  By the last day our boys were dragging and tired.  We headed to some "must sees" I had read about on the internet and then headed home.

 The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist was definitely on the list of things to see.  It was so beautiful.  It was the first time that the boys had seen a church like this and they thought it as awesome!

Truly so beautiful!

 We headed to the Colonial Park Cemetery, which is supposed to be super haunted.  I really just wanted to go there because I love old cemeteries.  I didn't dare tell the boys about the haunted part or I never would have gotten them out of there.  

 The boys and I were on a quest for the oldest headstone that we could find.  We found one from 1776, which was amazing!  Most of them had the writing worn off them.  It was so interesting.

 We were guessing that these headstones had fallen down so they put them on the wall to preserve them...either that or people were buried in the wall (Palmer came up with that one).

 The was a small library.  People would drop off a book and take one  So cool!  We were wising we had a Book of Mormon to add to the bunch.

We went to the Savannah Candy Kitchen, which was candy heaven!  I wanted to try one of everything! 

 We each got some ice cream to eat as we walked along the Savannah.

 There was taffy being wrapped and they were throwing out free samples.  Totally my kind of shop!

We ate ice cream and watched the ships go by.  Because this image is blown out you can't really see how massive this one was, but it was enormous.  The tiny holes in the front were full of people waving goodbye as they set out to sea.  Part of me wished it could go along, just to see everything that ship is going to see.

The last thing we did in Savannah we headed to Wormsloe Historic Site to see this breathtaking view.  It's one of the first pictures that I saw when we found out we were moving to Georgia and I finally got to see it in person.  There are 400 Oak trees that line this drive and it was simply heavenly.  We had an incredible time in Savannah

Tybee Island

 I love lighthouses and as soon as moving to Georgia I tried to locate the closest ones to us.  I couldn't wait to get to Tybee Island to see the beautiful lighthouse there.  The fact that it is the cutest little beach town was definitely an added bonus.

 Yep, she's a beauty.

 There were so many gorgeous and interesting beach houses to look at.

 Next time we go I am checking this fort out, it looked so interesting.

 I didn't bring Palmer and Lincoln swim shirts, so we had to be creative...my matching sensitive eyes were cringing, but nobody got burned!

 This is the first time the boys had ever seen the Atlantic Ocean (I didn't see it until I was 20...)  It is only the second time they have ever been to a beach and they had a ball playing in the ocean.  The water was extremely cold and they couldn't have cared less.

 McKay was a little more nervous, but by the end he was in the ocean jumping into the waves with Josh.

 We saw this "Jelly ball" floating around.  We were worried it was one that stings, but the locals assured us it isn't...but we still didn't take any chances.

 The boys wanted to body surf, but all we had were these little paddle boards.  They made them work and had such a fun time.

 Jumping the waves.

 We had all sorts of planes, helicopters and huge ships pass by us the whole day.  It was such an interesting day.  We also had fun watching pelicans fly up really high in the air and dive into the ocean after fish.  It happened again and again and was so neat.

 I sure love these cute boys!

 Lincoln spent a lot of time on this hole.  He was very proud if it.

 A little bit of ocean football with a friend the boys made.

 Toward the end of the day we couldn't pry the boys out of the water, but McKay was too cold so we sat and snuggled and told stories until Josh was able to talk the boys out of the ocean.  Even then they were sad to leave.

 Hunter and Lincoln gathered all of these neat shells.  They were everywhere!

 Some fun picture taking around the town of Tybee Island.

When we got home I photo shopped it a little bit.

 Later that night we walked around Savannah taking a look at the capitol building.  There was such neat architecture around this town for so many different time periods.

 We saw a family walking down the street and the little boy had a HUGE pizza box on his head.  Josh took off across the square to find out where they'd gotten it.  We just HAD to get one for dinner.  Josh was a champ and carried it about a mile to our hotel.

The boys thought it was amazing and we polished off the whole thing!  Another great day in Savannah!