Instead of returning home on Friday, we did decide to stay one more day in Savannah. Vacations are fun and there was just no way we wanted it to end. Staying one more day delayed the inevitable, but there was more we wanted to see and do.

There is always so much to do in any one area, we’ve decided that when we go on our next vacation, we won’t plan to be there for any less than a week. We thought we’d be bored after a while in Northeast Georgia and that we’d have to fill the time with sitting on the beach. We were wrong and couldn’t have been farther from the truth. We needed more time.

So today, we started off by gathering some sand from the beach. We like to save sand from all the different places (beaches) we’ve been to. Then we headed downtown to see the Savannah Botanical Gardens. We thought it would be some large professional place. It was pretty, but it was just two older ladies taking tips and spending a lot of time asking me about how to set up a web site for their place! I had told them that we had a hard time finding out information and that a website would give them a lot more visibility.

We saw a water moccasin in the pond out by the rose garden! Laura was skittish after that. The flowers and roses were certainly beautiful, though.

Then we headed to the 8th Air Force Museum. There were lots of planes, war memorabilia, and facts to read and see. There was a nice chapel in the back of the museum with stained glass of different WWII images. It was very cool.

That afternoon, we took a stroll through downtown Savannah and saw some of the beautiful homes that sit near parks and old streets. Laura’s dad is a fan of the novelist Flannery O’Connor, so we saw her house as well.

We ended up in a Hampton Inn for the night and dinner at Longhorn’s Steakhouse. It was a great day topped off by a great dinner!

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