Thursday, August 9, 2007

Vacation, day one

We left on Wednesday at 9pm. We got to Savannah GA around 11am. This is such a beautiful city. All the wonderful old arcetecture and streets. Our first stop was the Juliette Low Birthplace.

We took the tour. We got to see the dining room, the library, the parlors, the bedrooms and the restored bathroom. It was really neat to see where it all began and where Daisy grew up. We got to see some of her sculptures and paintings. She actually did a portrait copy of her mother that she wanted to take with her to England but that her father wouldn't part with. She got her paints out and did an exact copy of the painting and we got to see it in the formal parlor. We got to see some of her iron work too. And the sculpture of her neice that she did was really neat and very life like.

The garden was amazing the plants are huge!! Take a look at this one...

After the tour we decided to drive around and see the city a little and ended up at the river walk area. We saw all sorts of shops some with cloths others with nic nacs and soveniors. But the best shop was the candy store. Savannah Candy Kitchen. They were making taffy when we were there and were throwing pieces into the crowd as it came out of the machine. If you've never had warm taffy let me tell you it was great!! The youngest two had ice cream, the oldest marshmellow chocolate bark and Jer had peanut butter gelato (I can't remember how to spell that!). I have a praline, it melted in my mouth. it was so rich I actually had to save half of it!! I bought some orange vanilli fudge for later. Still haven't tried it actually. Maybe I'll try some tomorrow.

We got down here to Jacksonville around dinnertime and have been relaxing. The kids are all sleeping already, even after sleeping most of the drive to Savannah and then to Jacksonville. I can't get over how hot it is down here. It feels like 100 degrees, every time I step outside my glasses fog up. It was so hot earlier that our a/c in the car stopped working, it just couldn't get the moisture out of the air!! We'll be here for a few days and then it's off to Destin for fun in the sun (or not if it's still this hot!). Great people, good food, ocean view... really can't beat it.

One last pic of the girls signing the guestbook....

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