5yr Anniversary (early trip)

Before heading to Pensacola Beach with the Grantham side of the family for vacation, Mandy and I dropped Watson off with my parents and drove to Savannah to stay the night. My brother and the younger of my two sisters were born in Savannah, so it was a city we frequented to see friends and walk River Street. We had a great time and visited a couple of neat places.

The Pirates House is a local national landmark and was always a place we stopped when I was a kid. Mandy and I sat next to the hidden trap door in the Captain's Room. Here, sailors who had fallen asleep from drunkenness would be taken to the rum cellar and then down an underground tunnel that opened at the Savannah River a few blocks away. They were then sold into slavery for 10-12 dollars and often woke up on a ship that had already set sail for some foreign land.

We drove down US-HWY-80 and visited Tybee Island and took a look at the famous Tybee Island Lighthouse.
On River Street, we had to stop by and see the statue of Florence Martus, Savannah's Waving Girl.

We also took a tour of the Owens-Thomas House, considered the "finest example of English Regency architecture in the United States."