Savannah, GA

HELLO! Nikki here, live from the passenger seat on 16-W, on our way to the ATL! We had a deliciously fun time in Savannah – here’s what happened:

It didn’t take us too long to get to Savannah from Charleston, but we did make a quick pit stop at the Carolina Cider Company (really just a small shack filled with pies, sauces and cider) on the side of what we remember to be 17S. Here, we bought bottles of Blueberry and Peach cider for the road, and Linds bought ‘Slatherin’ Sauce’ noting, “I’m not sure what it is, but it said that you could put it on a lot of different types of meat. And I like a lot of different types of meat. And I like sauce. So…ya can’t go wrong.” After a few minutes of sampling various edibles inside of this magical land shack, we got back on the road.

We made it to savannah and checked into our ~*motel*~, and all I’d like to say about that is that you get what you pay for in savannah. I’d also like to request more of my friends to move out to savannah at some point so I have an actual friend to stay with at my leisure. I took a quick nap and then we headed back into the city to the River Street Market which is full of lots of tchotchkes and tourist trappy restaurants. Its also full of candy shops with delicious free samples  and this gourmet food store that quite literally had samples of every item in the store. Peanuts, chocolate, sauces, you name it, we ate it. For free. And in large handfuls. We only allowed ourselves to do this because we had to tide ourselves over until our dinner reservation which was at 9:45pm at Paula Deen’s restaurant, The Lady & Sons. We walked all along River Street until there was no more River Street or free samples, and headed up to the City Market, right in the middle of town on the square. There was live music and lots of cute restaurants and shops, and yes, more free samples! Wow. How great is that?  We ended up killing time outside at a café that reeled me in with a sign on the door reading “FAMOUS GA PEACH SANGRIA!” You’ll be happy to know, loyal followers, that I now have a definite response for the question “if you could drink one drink for the rest of your life, what would it be?”  chocolate milk just got bumped to the #2 spot, after this amazing peach sangria. We grabbed a table outside and listened to music, drank peach sangria out of mason jars, drank a hot peach moscato drink, drank a sweet tea/moscato drink, and danced in our chairs. We decided at 8:45 that we should just go to the restaurant and see if we could be sat early, because that would really be good southern hospitality. They did! Wow. Thanks, Paula Deen, you racist @$$hole.

Like I mentioned earlier, we had been really sampling the entire city in large palmfulls, so TBH we were not hungry, literally at all. BUT WHEN HAS THAT EVER STOPPED US!? We started out with a complimentary biscuit and pancake, because we couldn’t have turned away the nice lady who delivered it to us. Even though by this point, we were even more full, we ordered an appetizer to eat before our actual meal… We got a shrimp and crab dip with little cheesy toasts and it was spot on. Though they never give you enough toasts for a huge bowl of dip though…what is that about? They never give enough toast! Whatever. We ate the dip off our forks when we ran out of toast. Then, because we still weren’t hungry, we ordered more food. I ended up getting a ~*salad*~ covered with onion rings cause I’m a southern belle, and linds got a crab stuffed Portobello mushroom covered in cheese, because she doesn't know what it means to be a lady. Needless to say, we did not finish these dishes, and were embarrassed/disappointed in ourselves. SO SUE US!

After dinner, we rolled out of the restaurant like Violet Beauregard and walked back through the square to the car and headed back to our beautiful dwelling place. The night ends there.

We opened our precious little eyes around 9am and headed over to J.Christophers, a breakfast spot that was recommended by multiple people. They were not lying. Honestly, wow. We both got ‘skillets’ which included eggs, potatoes, cheese, and multiple other items smushed around in an individually sized cast iron skillet and placed infront of us. Amazing in every way. I miss it, and I’m not even hungry.

Before mixing

After mixing

After crying while leaving our new favorite restaurant, we drove to Chippewa Square, the spot where the bench scenes in Forrest Gump were filmed. We learned that the bench was taken out of the park and placed in a museum because hoodlums tried to steal it a bunch of times, so now the square is just lined with similar looking benches where people sit and take pictures pretending to be Tom Hanks. I threw a leaf in the air and pretended it was a feather…yadda yadda use your imagination.

"Do I look like I'm waiting for a bus?" 

We then went to Forsyth Park, a beautiful huge park in the middle of Savannah with a beautiful huge fountain and lots of babies and doggies. While taking a lovely stroll, we came across a wedding! It was so pretty and we stood there and watched, along with the rest of the people at Forsyth. If anyone knows a couple that got married there on 12/28, please get me in touch with them because I have an awkwardly large amount of photos/videos of their wedding ceremony that I’m sure they would like to have.

After Forsyth we had to walk back to J Christopher’s because we wanted more food *gasp* we forgot to take a picture in front of the restaurant and that will just not fly on this trip. We snapped a picture, hopped in the car, and got on our merry way to Atlanta.

Next time you hear from us, we’ll still be full, but we’ll still be eating.

Ta Ta For Now!

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