Wow. This was a great
day. We got up around 7:15 and got ready
to go to Congaree but the breakfast was fairly picked over so Grant ate at the
hotel and we all headed back over to Chick-fil-a for a quick breakfast then
went down to Congaree National Park.
The
park was neat but was about what I expected – nothing that I’d ever want to go
back to. We went on a 2.7 mi boardwalk
“hike” which seemed like a piece of cake compared to what we’d just done in the
Smoky Mountains. 
Then we got in the car around 10:45 and drove down to Hilton
Head. The drive was uneventful and we
arrived around 1:15. Hilton Head was
really beautiful. We ate at the BEST
seafood place ever called Sea Shack. And
it was a shack but it was amazing.
Then
we drove down to the beach, parked in the only available parking spot, and
walked out onto the beach of the Atlantic Ocean and put our feet in. There was a gusting wind and a lot of spring
breakers out and about but the kids can now officially say that they’ve been in
both oceans.
We got back in the car around 2:45 and drove to
Savannah. The kids watched Big Hero 6
for the 400th time. They’ve
been watching it in English, Spanish and French and have been cracking up at
the same scenes every time. There’s a
funny part where one of the characters says something random like, “Harnessing
the power of the sun with the ancient amulet he found in the attic. Uhm,uhm uhm, the amulet it green. Uhm, uhm
uhm –it’s probably an emerald. I
personally have no idea what he’s talking about but it’s funny to hear it in
Spanish. We’ve all enjoyed saying, “Uhm,
uhm, uhm, el amulet es verde!”
We pulled into the Savannah Hampton Inn around 4 and checked
in. We got a HUGE corner room which
seems like it’s almost twice as wide and much longer than a normal
room. It’s awesome, especially after the
“Microhell” from last night. We promptly got out our Savannah map and went on a
1.5ish hour walk of Savannah. And all I
can say is “WOW”. I like this town so
much better than Charleston. There are
little city parks every few blocks and the architecture is so interesting. There’s also moss hanging from most of the
trees, just like what you imagine.
We went down to Forsyth Park and the kids
swung on playground swings, then we walked over past the cemetery then over to
City Market where we had dinner at Wild, Wild Wings. It was delicious. Nick and I both had a few beers with dinner –
ahhhh. Then we briefly sat and watch
some live music outside, walked through and bought wonderful cookies at Byrds
and walked back to the hotel around 7:45.
The hotel is so very nice. I’d
really like to come back here sometime soon.
I really enjoyed this day and am sad to think that our trip is basically
over. I think we’d all four like this to
last a little bit longer.
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