Day 2 of the Saga of Travels. Free breakfast at your hotel is great for the wallet, but gets boring pretty quick. Except for as a place for meeting people. Nice couple from upstate California was the new-friend-of-the-day, issue #1. Hop on-hop off ride on the trolley tour (2nd day only adds $8 more) was PERFECT! Forsyth Park was gorgeous, cool, FULL of azaleas, and entertaining. Free entertainment provided by the Stroller Strong Moms. We looked around and there were about 30 moms with babies in strollers doing their exercises in a group. At first we laughed, but later realized that this was a GREAT idea! Wish theyd had groups like this about 40 years ago! hehe! Next was Colonial Cemetery. Even in broad daylight its a scary place. But only for people who have foot-in-mouth disease. Like me. There were about 10 SCAD students sitting in various places around the cemetery, each with a drawing pad and pencils, drawing/sketching scenes in the cemetery, like crypts, trees, garbage cans, etc. I stopped and talked to a few, just to get a handle on what their assignments were. Yeah, I know, but sign posts never answer back when I talk to them. These kids did. Eventually, I got to the older student and told her that, no offense to the other students, but hers was SSOO much better than theirs. It should be, she said in a decidedly German accent. Im the professor. My foot-in-mouth disease only tastes good up to the knee... After the cemetery, we walked to the Savannah Theater, the oldest continuously operated theater in the country. Now, they no longer have movies, its only live performances. Outstanding place!! Lunch at Six Pence (a British pub) was nice, on the sidewalk, but the shrimp salad was rather bland and the much-lauded French Onion soup was disappointing. But the chicken pot pie was phenomenal! As were the little four-legged dustmops that ate lunch there with their pet parents. So precious! The trip down the river on the river boat was fun, but the BRAT who continuously whined and got louder during the only 1-hour cruise was pushing ALLLLL of the buttons on my impatience meter. There are two things that I offer, from my ditty bag of VAST experience in dealing with children. My OWN children never caused problems for other people. No brag, just fact. HOWEVER, Im the older sister of 4 younger brothers AND caregiver of NUMEROUS others, so I speak from experience. If a child is being obnoxious in public, there are two things that can be done to keep my A$$ out of jail for murder. (1)Fix that BRATS d--- problem (get her the juice that she is whining at 200 decibels for) or (2)Teach that BRAT NOT to whine in public. Either option would have been acceptable to the 30 other people in the dining area of this riverboat who were bailing out in droves, to go stand in the heat outside! I despise kids that create havoc in person (fair warning!), but I detest their PARENTS who seem to think that I want to HEAR their childs BRATTINESS!! ARGH!! The Nina and Pinta (reconstructed versions) were pulled up alongside the River Street dock (only until 4/8) and were definite eye openers! Made to scale of Columbuss ships, its shocking to think how many men were crammed onto those tiny little ships to cross the Atlantic, both ways!! Nina was 65 long, Pinta was 85. Sheese! City Market only holds one attraction to me in Savannah and that is the Thomas Kincade gallery. Now that Kincade is dead (at age 54, in the last year), I expected the prices to sky rocket. They havent and I warned the proprietor faithfully that WHEN I win the lottery, Ill be back in 2 days afterward to buy him OUT!! If youre ever in Savannah, eat at Carey Hilliards for some GREAT white shrimp! Enter new-friend-of-the-day, issue #2. As usual, I became the server whisperer and my shoulder is nicely padded for leaning on. In Heaven, Ill be the only unlicensed psychologist! Now for some cream for the bruised feet (good tennis shoes only help to some extent) and a good nights sleep before Tybee Island tomorrow!! Bring on the Aleve... Thank you, Lord, for vacations from reality!
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 02:09:12 +0000
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