Historic Savannah, Georgia

A chalk art festival at a park

One of the oldest homes in the city

Owens-Thomas House that we toured, above is the carriage house, where the slaves lived

Back of the Thomas-Owens house, view from the courtyard

Davenport House, second home we toured

Some of the buildings in the Historic District in Savannah

Old street sign that was found in someones yard under the ivy, it was longer before it broke

One of the fountains in the parks

This is what some of the streets down by the river look like

We went on a tour of the Historic Part of Savannah, we just loved it. It is so pretty and all the houses and buildings and parks are amazing. We went to two historic houses for tours and to the Savannah Museum which was really interesting.

Went to a interesting place to eat called Zunzi's, it's a cross between african and dutch cooking we were told. Yummy!! Rained a little, but not bad, it stayed fairly cool.

We were told some interesting things on the tour: beds were made with the Spanish Moss, which was full of bugs called Chiggers, and they say that's where the saying, "don't let the bed bugs bite" came from. They also filled the seats of the first Fords with it. We were also told that when there was a severe outbreak of Yellow Fever, it spread so quickly and so many people died from it, that they didn't waste any time burying the dead, but sometimes they were buried too quickly, so they had a rope with a bell on it by the grave and a man stood post so he could hear if a person rang it, and the person that was buried would pull on the rope ringing the bell, thus the phrase "dead ringer". That's what we were told!!

Many of the buildings here, including the historic site Wormsloe that we visited yesterday, are made with Tabby: a combination of lime, sand, oyster shells and water.

We also saw the home ( the outside) of Juliett Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts.