The Beginning after the Initial Beginning--The Honeymoon

Don't worry, all of my blogs are not going to start with "The Beginning..."  But with all these new experiences expect at least the first three to start that way. :)

Originally we were planning on taking a cruise to the Caribbean for our honeymoon, and although that would be fun and new, we decided against it.  The decision was two-fold.
1. We found out we had inadvertently scheduled the exact same cruise (even the same boat) as that of our church's annual Ministers and Wives Cruise.  While seeing many of our friends would have been great, we concluded that maybe a honeymoon was not the time to take that opportunity. ;)
2. Drew has never been out on the ocean before and, while it is unlikely that he would, we did not want to find out whether he gets sea sick or not.


SO, I told Drew I wanted a cute historic type place with downtown stores and coffee shops and brick/cobblestone roads with a river walk.  Then he showed me Savannah, Georgia.  It was perfect!  Everything I asked for!

The hotel we stayed at was wonderful.  They had chocolates and Sparkling juice in our room when we arrived.

 

  

 

 

Failed attempt at couple shot.  I forgot I had the camera zoomed in.

 

This was a wonderful cafe right down from our hotel. It was a cafe/art gallery. I had the best mushroom sandwich there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The stairs that tried to kill me.

This is the "Waving Girl."  Wonderful story about her which you can read about here if you're interested.

 

 

 

These are balancing dragonflies made out of bamboo I believe.

This is coming over the bridge to Tybee Island

This was at Fort Pulaski. My husband is an excellent cannon operator.

 

 

 

The Tybee Island lighthouse

Aww look!  First time I ever signed my (our) name officially!  :)  This was the guest book in the lighthouse.

This is the view from the top of the lighthouse.

My husband is obsessed with taking pictures of birds.  Although I think I actually took this one, it was his idea. :)  And yes it really was that close and I squealed nervously the whole time I was trying to get the picture.

Poor horseshoe crab.  I'd never seen one outside of an aquarium!  Drew turned it over and it looked like a spider.

The other end is in California and I will be sure to upload the picture of that once we go there. :)

This is Forsythe Park back in Savannah

I absolutely love these trees.

As you can read, this is The Pirate's House.  It is believed to be the oldest pirate hang-out in the U.S.

 

This is where Forrest Gump sat in the opening "sitting on the bench" scene.  He would have been on the other side of that bush facing the capitol.

This was the free ferry across the river to Hutchinson Island.  There was some kind of music convention so the line was very long to get back.  Little did we know that all the island consisted of was and convention center and a hotel.

This was the inside of the Savannah River Queen.  I forgot to get a shot of the outside.

This was the Chart House.  We ate here our last night in Savannah.  It was very nice but confusing because there were 3 levels so we came in from the top, went to the bottom for the hostess' desk, and back up one level to be seated.  I didn't know whether to go up or down by the time we finished.