I wanted to kick off my first post with something to really write about - our vacation to Hilton Head, SC and Savannah, GA. Yeah!
With Molly starting kindergarten this year we wanted to go somewhere beachy for a few weeks. We looked at Hawaii again (this time way too expensive) and other areas and then landed on Hilton Head after some friends recommended it. Fortunately we scored great airline tickets and a condo within walking distance to the beach. We also decided to spend the last day and a half of our trip in Savannah, GA.
As this was our first time heading to the East Coast for a vacation, we weren't sure what to expect. What would the sand be like? Waves? Will the Atlantic be cold? Our few beach-centric vacations have been to more tropical locations - Moorea, Oahu, Kauai. Except for our trip to the Northwest on Vancouver Island - which was very cool (literally) but we were there for the hiking...not the beach so not sure if I should really count that one.
Well, we were very pleasantly surprised. The water was warm, the waves were not huge, the sand was velvety, and you could walk out for quite a ways and still only be waist high - all which are great when you have 2 little ones. We spent most of our days on the beach playing in the waves, building sand castles, and soaking up the sun (with sunscreen of course). A couple of days it rained so we would watch movies, go out to eat, go shopping, etc.
We really enjoy food and we found some good places for eats. We love pizza and we ended up at Guiseppi's Pizza at Shelter Cove (we ended up here several times actually). We tried their pizza, wedgies, and more pizza. It was a great fallback when we didn't feel like eating at the condo. We did our grocery shopping at the Piggly Wiggly (what a great name!) or as Eliza likes to refer to it "piggy piggy". Then we found a great ice cream place (I am always on the look out for ice cream!) at Coligny Plaza called The Ice Cream Cone. It's been there since 1971! On our second visit to The Ice Cream Cone, Eric tried their chocolate malt and said it was the best he's ever had - and that's good because I consider him the chocolate malt connoisseur of our family; I had a wonderful Black Raspberry Chocolate Chip and Eliza had the Superman (which is vanilla in Superman colors); Molly had a gumball (her independent choice) but then as you can only imagine after watching us eat our ice cream, she sampled all of ours. Other places we really enjoyed were the Harbor Town Bakery and Deli and the much needed playground across the street and The Old Oyster Factory. Good stuff!
After about 11 days of the beach, we headed to Savannah, GA. Knowing that we only had a day and a half in Savannah, we had to do some fast research about what to see, where to eat (again - it's all about food for us), etc. Thanks to the WWWW (wonderful world-wide web), we hit the highlights that we could in a 16 hour tour. We experienced Krysta
l burgers (part of the burger eating world championship) - which we don't have here in Kansas City and wonderful southern cooking and hospitality at the Masada Cafe - United House of Prayer Church. While in Savannah, we took a carriage ride through the historic district and saw beautiful architecture and learned about the history and, of course, spotted The Cupcake Emporium where we bought coconut, Reeses, Mabel's Favorite, and pistachio cupcakes and devoured them across the street at Wright Square. This was all just hours before underground explosions in the downtown area caused blackouts for blocks of the city - as we learned when catching the evening news. We also experienced Fort Pulaski on one of the nearby islands and Tybee Island.Overall, it was a wonderful vacation and "end" to summer since Molly was starting kindergarten the following Tuesday. More on that later...
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