February 27, 2006 - Savannah, Georgia

Our day started early, we had breakfast and then booked a shuttle into Savannah. We had quite a laugh at the front desk waiting for the shuttle. One of the guests arrived and asked to buy a pillow like the one she had in her room. The poor woman at the front desk was so busy, trying to book our shuttle, answering the phone and checking out another guest...so she is trying to contact someone from housekeeping to sell this woman a pillow and the front desk clerk finally says to the woman, perhaps since you liked the one you had in your room so much, just take that one...imagine how many people slept on that pillow...the poor front desk clerk was at wits end and was just willing to give the pillow to the guest...anyway, she did get another employee to help her and looked like they were going to find the guest a "new" pillow. The guest did say, "well, I would rather have a new pillow"...I guess it was one of those situations where you had to be there.
Miss Latoya picked us up at about 9:30 and dropped us down by the waterfront in Savannah. She told us to talk withMiss Susie to purchase bus tickets to tour the city later. We had a nice stroll down River Street, then made our way up a couple of blocks away from the waterfront and wandered around till we started to get hungry, then we made our way back to River Street and went to Spanky's (Miss Susie's recommendation) for lunch.
Mr. David picked us up for our tour of the city. We had about a 90 minute tour of the historic district of Savannah, it was a unbelievable, the history and architecture is majestic. So many buildings and so much history, we are returning tomorrow to see some of sites we are most interested in. There are many little squares scattered throughout this district, here is one of them, Johnson Square.
Seems as though River Street is the most popular street to find tourists, it runs right along the river front, lots of watercraft milling about and people wandering around, it was quite peaceful.
We arrived back to the hotel about 3:30pm, cleaned out the car and then went for a swim. We are just heading out the door now for some supper.