Savannah, GA

 During spring break of 2012 my husband and I went to Savannah, Georgia.  We decided to take a spring break trip because it was my last year in college, I was extremely stressed out, and we needed an excuse for another trip.  We decided that Savannah was close enough (ended up taking 13 hours) to drive and it was somewhere we had never been.  On the way we decided to take ONLY back roads (something we decided against on the way back).  That part was fun but after about 8 hours of it we were just ready to be there.  The picture to the right is the pier right outside the hotel that we stayed at. 

While at the beach we saw a TON of jellyfish washed up on the beach.  We could also see them swimming in the water while we were standing on the pier.  Surprisingly people were still swimming.

 The following are pictures from two different cemeteries in Savannah.  I believe they are the Bonaventure and Colonial Park cemeteries.  We ended up having to take most of the pictures from our car because the mosquitoes were  out of control.  I had so many bites on my feet that I could hardly put my shoes on.  The first section of pictures are from the Bonaventure cemetery (I believe).  We took a few hours to walk/drive around and look. 

 This is the colonial park cemetery.  It is located in downtown Savannah.  We first walked through the cemetery during the day.  Later, we took a ghost tour and stopped by the cemetery.  The ghost story that went with this cemetery went something like this:  A woman regularly passed near this cemetery on her way home from work.  Almost every night she saw this handsome man who looked extremely tired and never acknowledged anyone.  One night she decided to follow him.  He walked to the cemetery and through the gate (quite literally through the bars of the gate) and disappeared.  Pretty basic.  The woman leading the tour encouraged all of the customers to take pictures of the cemetery at night.  She said that she often had people take pictures where something creepy showed up.  Anyway,  I put my arms through the fence and took a picture with my cell phone.  When I looked at the pictures with my husband nothing showed up (who really thought that it would have anyway) so I exited the camera on my phone and went about my business.  About 30 seconds later my phone shut off on its own, turned itself back on, and the pictures I had just taken were gone.  Everyone else in the group was talking about how they had nothing in their photos so I decided to mention what had happened to mine.  The guide told me that what happened wasn't uncommon.  She regularly had people with fully charged digital cameras take or attempt to take pictures and the cameras died while they were doing so.  Creepy?  A little.  Ghost?  Doubtful.  A story I like to tell?  You bet.

 They used the back brick wall of the cemetery to bolt up broken headstones. 

Right next to this awesome door was a sign from the city of Savannah saying there would be a meeting about how to demolish/clean up this building.  Who needs to
clean this up?  I would want to do this on purpose!

 And we can't forget food.  No trip is complete without eating at the local dives & eating things you have never heard of before.
On the left: pineapple upside down martini from the Ole Pink House.  Tastes exactly like the cake. And I mean exactly like the cake.  Prepare to have your mind blown.  Also, they serve "crack sticks" which are sort of like cheese its made into crunchy sticks.  We decided to have drinks in the tavern of after our ghost tour (this place is also considered haunted) Also, this place has some wonderful food.  Southern sushi plus shrimp and cheese grit patties.  Now that I have put it down in words I need to go back.

Below: Turkey, gravy, and french fry sandwich.  Sounds like great southern food to me.