Originally posted by KIRSTIN'S MOMMY
Glad you had a good time when you passed through! Huey's is a lot of fun, especially when they have live music. My dd is also 4, no siblings yet though! We're waiting until after our big trip in August to start trying again....
I've passed through quite often.
My wife and I vacationed there a couple of times about five years ago, and we liked it so much we decided that we might like to live there. So we spent the next 8 months or so going back and forth
every week, looking at housing and doing job interviews...until we found out that our DS was on the way. We decided to stay put (in Newnan). My grandparents and parents live here and we wanted the children to live close to them, at least for the first few years.
We still love to visit though, and do often. We love to walk through the parks and squares, and we can spend
hours wandering around in Bonaventure Cemetary (or the candy shops).
I've found most of the people I've met in Savannah to be friendly and down-to-earth. As testament to that, I was sitting in Reynolds Square one morning, and on a bench next to mine sat a woman alone, holding two cups of coffee. On several of the other benches in the park were men sleeping, having obviously been there most of the night. No one in the park seemed particularly concerned, and that in itself seemed odd to me.
A Savannah police officer (a woman on foot patrol) came up and took her coffee with the waiting woman, and they chatted for a few minutes -- it was apparent that this was ritual. Then the police-woman stood up and said "Time for wake up call". They both smiled as if
that were ritual, too, and she proceeded to walk the park, tapping the soles of the sleeping mens' feet.
Every last one promtly sat up without any argument; they milled about for a minute, then walked away. She didn't threaten to haul anyone off to jail. It wasn't necessary. I was highly impressed. In these days when people have all but lost hope of living peacefully together, when people fear the police (often rightly so)
and the homeless (often for no good reason at all) it was good for my soul.
Leave aside for a moment the fact that Savannah has homeless people -- it's one of the busiest ports in the country, it's bound to. And it's easy enough to condemn the homeless, especially while banging at the keyboards of expensive computers...but there, but for the grace of God, go all of us.
It's easy enough for any visitor to see (and tell you) that your fine city is a beautiful place, with its azaleas and palm trees, horse-drawn carriages and smiling tour-guides. But what I love about Savannah is that that beauty isn't only skin deep...it goes all the way to the asphalt.
May the fertility gods smile on you after your trip.
(On preview: Forgive me for rambling. I was raised in The South.
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i'll keep that in mind
