Savannah DAY 1

I have officially made it to Savannah Georgia... ALIVE and in one piece. Yah! :)

Last night (actually this morning :/ ) at about 2am we got to our hotel, and I was asleep fifteen minutes later. My mother and I were supposed to attend church today where Juliette Gordon Low (founder of Girl Scouts) went to and was married in. But we slept until ten instead. I'm such a bad christian! Haha.

Then we went to Paula Dean's place. We piddled around the gift shop for a while, and I called my Padre to wish him a happy Father's day. Our lunch consisted of fried chicken, that I can get at KFC, cold crunchy mac and cheese, like the nasty stuff Kraft makes, and way too salty potatoes! Yuck. I was NOT impressed with Paula Dean's restaurant, maybe it was just because today was a buffet, but I won't be going back.

After lunch we boarded a Trolley for a four hour tour of Historic Savannah, or what the locals call "downtown." Our first stop was at the Laurel Grove Cemetery, which was originally owned by a wealthy plantation owner, who decided to sell plots for people to bury their dead in. When no one would buy his plots, because their previously deceased loved ones were in another cemetery, he said that if they bought his plots he would move their loved ones to his site. The funny part is that he didn't actually move the bodies, just the tomb stones to Laurel Grove. So there are a lot of unmarked graves in the other cemetery, and a lot of unused tomb stones at Laurel Grove.

This is also where Juliette was placed to rest.

At we grave we took pics, and hosted a small ceremony for the girls who received their bronze/silver awards this year. We traded a few SWAPS (Special Whatchamacallits Affectionately Placed Somewhere).

The rest of the tour was extremely insightful. We looked at old churches, the squares (small parks in the city), old houses, cemetery's, and places of historical interest. After stopped by a rather large and super modern cafe for ice cream, which was really good.

Below are some pics I took while we were out. Some of them aren't very good as I have a small digital camera, and I am not a skilled photo taker.

 This is Juliette Gordon Low's Head stone. She designed it herself, but actually it wasn't put up until ten years after she died, because it was very expensive and she left all her money to the Girl Scouts.

 Her picture doesn't do her justice. She was very very beautiful in real life, but this pic makes her look like the wicked witch of the west or something.

 The moss growing on these trees is on every tree within miles of Savannah. It's not parasitic, it just hangs on the trres and occasionally falls into the streets. At night this stuff can be pretty creep! Booh! :)

 Me and My Momma at Juliette's headstone. We were very excited to see the grave of the founder of Girl Scouts. Back in the day they were called Girl Guides... interesting tidbit.

 It's Paula Dean! Nope, just a cut out. I didn't realize she was so short. I'm only like five five, so she can't be much taller than five even, if this is realistically sized that is.

Me in between the graves of Ellie and Franklin Low, who died at the age one. They were Juliette's niece and nephew from her brother and his wife.

During the trolley tour we passed an old beat up building that had this interesting message written on it. When we got off to take pictures at some old building I snapped one of this. It's not only biased and funny, as it was surrounded by trash (you can't see it in the photo), but also whoever wrote it for the 'u' on the end of you! Jesus wants YO to recycle dog!

I'll have more to post tomorrow, as we are going to the Birthplace of Girl Scouts.

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P.S. My last day of basketball camp was AWESOME, although I lost at the Knock-out championship :( oh well I'm training for next year. But I did make sixty-five of about eighty or ninety! That's a pretty good percentage, at least it's better than Shaq!

This is Coach Ford with a Chocolate Mustache! Becca made it for her on the last day of camp. I've been so busy I forgot to post this.