Savannah Vacation (Part 1)
I recently went on a trip to Savannah for my birthday. I had been wanting to go for a while so I finally decided to book the tickets. I talked my mom, who has never gone on a vacation in her life (visiting family is *not* a vacation) into going with me. I usually fly but my mother hates to fly so we decided to take the train. We took Amtrak to get here and the ride was surprisingly comfortable. We arrived late at night and couldn’t wait to get to our hotel room. I made sure to book a river view room, and our room had a balcony, which was nice. We woke up at 6:30am so we could be sure to have breakfast before it got really crowded, and this was the gorgeous view that greeted us. (The third pic was taken about an hour after we had eaten and gone back to the room to shower and get ready for the day.)
When we arrived the night before, we were too tired to properly take in our surroundings, but the lobby was definitely beautiful and I loved the hanging light fixtures.This would have been a really cool picture if the trucks hadn’t been in the way. This was about a 2 minute walk from the hotel along the riverfront. I took so many pictures. The views were just incredible.I really liked the look of this souvenir shop. I thought about putting it in black and white, but I decided against it for 2 reasons. One, Fujifilm cameras are known for their vibrant and beautiful colors. Why mess with that by converting it to black and white? Two, I feel like vacation and travel pictures should be in color for the most part. I put a lot of my street work, and occasionally portrait work, in black and white, but it’s more to create a mood. Travel/vacation pictures seem a bit off in color (depending on the scene of course.)I had heard about the “Stone Stairs of Death” but it took us forever to find them, and I’m still not sure if we actually did or not. There were *a lot* of really steep steps in Savannah (and my mom walked them all like a champ!), but I think these were them. Anywhere there were steep steps there were signs like this below. 
There were so many beautiful things to see, but we came across this splash pad by the JW Marriot hotel when we were walking around the Plant Riverside District.
We walked to the City Market area to get some lunch. We really wanted to get the fried green tomatoes and white chocolate bread pudding from Belford’s but sadly they were closed (I think for a hiring event) for the days that we were going to be in Savannah. I was super bummed because I was looking forward to that bread pudding. We walked around a bit and came across the Prohibition Museum. They had a car outside, with a man in the drivers seat, and Ball jars of liquor in the trunk.
We obviously didn’t have any trouble finding a place that had fried green tomatoes, so we wound up going to Huey’s and ordering fried green tomatoes and an order of 4 beignets. Everything was amazing and the views were beautiful as well. 
By this point we were exhausted so we decided to go back to the hotel to rest up a bit before dinner and ice cream later. Why is it when you’re on vacation you eat like you never would when you’re at home? Hey, you’re on vacation. Calories don’t count! I can’t even remember what we had for dinner. I think I picked up some bbq for us, but the place I went to was not good. I can’t even remember the name. But going to Leopold’s for ice cream more than made up for it. I had the honey almond and the lemon flavors. Both were really delicious but the honey almond was my favorite.
My mom does not like being out late at night anywhere, so we packed it in for the night. When I go on vacation by myself I’m out until 1 or 2am. Places come alive after dark. Obviously you need to be aware no matter where you are, but I’m not about to go on vacation and be back in the hotel for the rest of night by 7pm or earlier. Absolutely not! Unless of course I’m on vacation with my mom. 😆