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Monday, December 26, 2016

Atlanta/Savannah Vacation December 2016 - Day 2

Today is Monday, December 26, and thankfully shops and activities are up and running and open again. We started the day boarding a tour trolley of the city, doing some sightseeing of the downtown, historic part of Savannah. There are a lot of churches, parks/squares, and beautiful large historic mansions in Savannah. This area is the factors row (whatever that means for sure), and on the other side of the buildings is the riverfront area.

I liked this statue and the Maya Angelou saying in-scripted on the base.

Allison of course spied the candy story.

Part of our trolley sightseeing tour was also a paddle boat tour. I was the one who suggested this as in the past in other areas the water tours are very informative. This one, however, wasn't so much. It got very, very technical into the shipping boats and containers and I don't know what else he was talking about because it seemed to go over my head. Because this is the largest shipping port in Georgia, this area was very industrial, and not necessarily very pretty on the water either. The buildings on the waterfront were cool, but the shipping area not so much.

This was an example of one of the large shipping boats with containers going down the river.

We went by Fort Jackson.

Upon getting off the boat, we went to the Savannah Museum of History. It was small but well done. One of my favorite exhibits was a temporary exhibit about quilts. I liked this example quite a bit. It was a quilt made in the 30s or the 40s, and it was made out of flour sacks. I took a picture of the faded flour bag stamp on the back.

Upon leaving the museum, we were going to stop at the Leopold Ice Cream parlor, which has been in business since 1919, and has a really good reputation ("Tutti Frutti"), but the line waiting for ice cream went waaaaaay down the block, and none of us (especially Bruce) had the patience for that line "just" for ice cream.

So, another good stop for this time of day was the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, which was just beautiful. It is an actual "working" parish but it is open for tourists.

The poinsettia tree was pretty. Our tour guide on the trolley said it was made up of well over 300 plants. I don't know....probably. There were other plants setting around the area as well.

The large pipe organ above the entry way in the back of the church. I think this would be really great to hear played.

This display was in the front, to the right of the altar area. It was lovely and very detailed and exhibited the story of Jesus' birth as well as the area around Bethlehem, with the wise men and shepherds, etc.

Notice in the middle of the left side in the above photo....I think there was an item that maybe wasn't supposed to be there ultimately.

For a closer picture of the culprit, see the following photo.

It was cute regardless of the intent.

We then walked down the block to one of the many "squares" in the historic area of Savannah. This is the Troup Square.

On our way back to our hotel, we did drive past Paula Deen's restaurant, The Lady and Sons.

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Atlanta/Savannah Vacation December 2016

Flew into Atlanta airport early Sunday morning (December 25), got the rental car,and hit the highway in a southern direction out of Atlanta. Now, one of my favorite shows on TV is The Walking Dead, which films around the Atlanta area, so I had to look and see where some of the filming locations are and if we could see them.

The first (and ultimately only stop) is Senoia, Georgia, which is't far out of Atlanta. I got a kick out of seeing the downtown area, which was a major filming spot for awhile. Because it was Christmas, nothing was open unfortunately because there were some neat places.

Again, thanks to the Christmas holiday, we really didn't find anything else to do, so we went ahead and drove the entire distance to our "ultimate" destination, Savannah. We found a hotel room, and ate at a majorly HUGE Asian buffet, which was busy, which leads me to believe more restaurants would benefit being open on holidays as I guess more people like to eat out. :)

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