SOUTHERN TRIP: DAY 3: SAVANNAH, GEORGIA

Day three of our trip took us to Savannah, Georgia. We woke up to a downpour but the front desk promised us that there would be breaks throughout the day. As you can see from our pictures, there were no breaks. Those Marriott employees cannot be trusted!! This is the garden where Forest Gump was filmed. Where Calvin and Karissa are standing at the bottom picture in the middle is where the bench was that Tom Hanks sat on during the entire movie. Apparently there are a lot of movies filmed in Georgia.

Again, the theme of the day was 'rain.' It got so bad that at one point Wayne and Calvin didn't even bother with the umbrellas anymore. We found out by the end of the day that when you're out all day, walking in the rain, stomping through puddles, it makes you REAL tired.

We ate lunch at 'Ms. Wilkes Boarding Home' and as explained earlier, this was one of my favorite places I've ever eaten. The food was fantastic and it was a fun experience to sit around with strangers and talk while you ate. It was a 20 minute wait in the rain to get in, but it was absolutely worth it. I would go back again and again if I lived there.

We took a trolley tour of the city and would stop at random places. This is one of the churches that is there in Savannah. The downtown is historic and has beautiful little houses and squares with all of the houses facing a little park in the middle.

After a couple of hours in the rain and wind it started to get pretty cold so we stopped by a store and got some cheap ponchos. We looked ridiculous, but it warmed us up so how we looked was our last concern. It was towards the end of the day but we didn't want to go home without taking pictures by this statue. There was a true story that a girl sent her sailor off to sea and every day would go to the docks to wait for him. While she was there she would wave to the other men coming in from sea. After some time she became depressed by the fact that her sailor wasn't coming back, but received a box of letters one day addressed to "the girl from Savannah who waves to the sailors." They were thank you letters from all of the sailors who's spirits were lifted when they would see her. The story goes that she vowed to go down every day to the docks and did so until she passed away. The trolley driver said that at one point they did an awards ceremony for her and had to move the entire venue because there were so many sailors that showed up to express their appreciation. I love stories like that!!
Before heading out to Charleston we stopped by the Tyree Lighthouse for some pictures. We had just gotten warm and dry, and it was starting to drizzle again, so this was a quick stop. Once we got to Charleston and spent the day in a humid city with sunshine, we realized that the rain in Savannah was a blessing in disguise. Humidity is no bueno!