Home Sweet Home

We left Savannah at about 8:30 this morning. It was a beautiful day for a nine hour drive. We put the pedal to the metal and traveled about 560 miles. That brought the total for the trip to 2,062. The cats were a little standoffish at first, they did accept treats however. Now all three of them are sleeping in the living room, two on the sofa with me and one in Mark's recliner. So far I've given two head rubs, Little Bit is holding out. I'm sure we will spend quality time tomorrow morning. We stopped again at South of the Border. We had neglected to take pictures of the 6' flamingos, which our friend Ellen pointed out. So Ellen we now have pictures of the flamingos. We made good time and although the traffic was heavy it kept moving until we go north of Richmond, then is was stop and go for a while. When we got to Stafford Mark suggested we stop at Mom's Apple Pie Company in Occaquan ( this was the place we got the pies for the wedding). So we stopped and got a blueberry pie. Of course we carried part of the lemon meringue and peach pies, that were left from the wedding, on the entire trip. We were always too full at night to eat them. They seemed to have survived the trip pretty well. As much fun as the trip was it is good to be home. We had a great surprise in the mail when we got home. Our friend Patsy had sent us a CD of the pictures she had taken at the wedding. Thanks very much Patsy, they are great. I've also downloaded the pictures I took on our trip.

Savannah

What a great city! We walked all over this morning and a good part of the afternoon. We walked along the river. First Saturday is a big time along the river. Then we went to the Mercer-Williams House (the setting for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil). Then we just walked around ending up at the History Museum. Both of us being of advanced maturity we decided to go against Mark's natural inclination and take a tour. We got to see a lot of the city sitting down. It is a small world, the guy who took our bags to the room yesterday also works for the tour company and sold us our tickets. He remembered us. Tonight we did more walking, looking for a place to have dinner. Back to River St. without success. The restaurants were mostly seafood, which didn't give Mark many choices. We went to Pirate House which had an hour wait. Then we did some more walking and ended up at the Casbah, a Moroccan restaurant. Our wedding seems to have a Moroccan theme, complete with belly dancers. We had our rehearsal dinner at the Moroccan Palace in DC and then finished our honeymoon at a Moroccan restaurant in Savannah. Dinner was very good and once again I'm stuffed. When we get home I'm going to avoid the scales for about a month.

The Trip Continues

We left Sarasota yesterday and made our way to Savannah, GA. What a great city. We walked around for about 2 hours after we got here. At dinner last night we decided to stay another day so we checked with the hotel when we got back and although we can't keep the same room (not sure why) we are staying one more night. We'll be doing much more exploring today. It has been a great trip, getting to meet more of Mark's family, seeing our friend Jean, and especially sharing it with my new spouse.