We Love Savannah

The top 40 things we love about Savannah Georgia:
1. A Balcony that over looks the gorgeous Savannah River.
2. Having it only take us literally 2 minutes to walk to work.
3. GRITS.
4. Having a beach 15 minutes away.  Talk about a nice get away.
5. 24 marathons with our roommates.
6. Walking everywhere.  It gets tiring but its nice to get the activity everyday.
7. No more snow.. for now.
8. Going to the pool whenever we please.
9. The residential homeless man Joe who is the kindest guy you'll every meet.  He gives us compliments everyday when we walk by him.
10.  Our neighbors.  Always looking out for us.
11.  Walmart.  There's no place like home.
12. Finally having a car.
13. Knowing the church really is the same where ever you go.. and true by the way.
14. Spending the summer as best friends across the country together.
15. Our manager Scott.  And all his hilarious surprises.
16. Our wall of art work in our apartment.
17. The southern hospitality.
18. Men with luscious hair. And accents.
19.  the savannah candy kitchen.
20. Free samples from the savannah candy kitchen.
21. Earth Bound.. our new favorite store.
22. 5 dollar foot longs with free chips on Fridays.
23. Days off.
24. Missionaries.
25. Tybee Island.
26. Tie Dye shirts.
27.  Getting mail.
28. Sending postcards.
29. Omelets.
30. Dolphins in the river.
31. The free fairy that takes you across the river.
32. cobble stone.
33. How everywhere in Savannah is "haunted"
34. Air conditioning.
35. Our apartment. Especially when its clean.
36. Fireworks on the river the first Friday of every month.
37. Florence. The waving lady.
38. Southern Boys.
39. Laying out in the sun.
40. Walking up and down River Street and all the interesting people we meet!
P.S. We apologize for any grammatical errors on our blog.. we aren't english majors. Clearly.

Our Claim to Fame

On Saturday when we were supposed to be working we went on a walk. While on this walk a lady shouted at us and asked if we wanted to be in a video that they were making for the tourist website. We realized this as an oppurtunity for fame and gladly excepted. Our new acting career began as we danced in a congo line with other tourist and characters dressed in olden attire (don't worry.. we were wearing matching red Del Sol polos and kind of hard to miss). The coolest character that was dressed up was a man completely covered in gold paint. I guess he was depicting the Oglethorpe Statue. The next scene we were in was at the front of the Old Savannah Queen Steam Boat. We were on the third level and told that this was a dance scene. We were standing in the front when the director of the commerical started shouting at Oglethorpe about the girls in red. We obviously new that they were refering to us and at first we thought he was telling us to move. This was quite disapointing and we were very apalled. As he kept shouting we soon found out that he wanted Oglethorpe to stand right in the middle of us. So basically instead of being moved to the back we were front and center. Next time someone asks us what we are doing in Savannah we plan on telling them that we are acting.

(They are blury, but these our pictures from the commercial with Oglethorpe)

After work that day we went on a dolphin tour. They offer them downtown and since we work on River Street we got to go for free. It was really cool and fun. The boat ride was relaxing and the breeze felt good. While on the tour we saw about ten dolphins. It was really cool. Our tour guide was "Tour Guide Mike" .We enjoyed his stories and all the facts he told us. While on the tour Becca talked to Tour Guide Mike (when he wasn't on the microphone) and Kenzie met a new friend named Tom from Florida. They were way fun to talk to and invited us to go to a piano bar that night. As the night went on we ended up having other plans so we didn't get to go, but it was good to meet some new friends.  One of the particular facts Tour Guide Mike said was that along the river there is a chemical plant which produces the stuff you find in the center of Oreos. He told us next time we eat an Oreo that we will now think of him. After the tour we were supposed to pay a tip, but of course neither of us had any cash. We went back to our apartment and grabbed the last two Oreos in our pantry and brought them back to Tour Guide Mike. We told him we were sorry that we didn't have any cash, but now when he has an Oreo he will think of us too. Tour Guide Mike says it's the best tip he has ever gotten. The next day we saw Tour Guide Mike and he informed us that he has already told the story of the two blondes who tipped him with Oreos.

(That would be a dolphin fin)

The next day was Sunday and this meant that we got to give our awesome talks. We both felt really good about our talks, and we had tons and tons people tell us good job. This made us feel really good because they don't even know who we are. After church we got to spend some quality time with our roommates and visited "The Waving Lady".

The Waving Lady

"As the story goes, life at the remote cottage was lonely for Florence whose closest companion was her devoted collie. At an early age, she developed a close affinity with the passing ships and welcomed each one with a wave of her handkerchief. Sailors began returning her greeting by waving back or with a blast of the ship's horn. Eventually Florence started greeting the ships arriving in the dark by waving a lantern. She did this for 44 years."

Tybee Round 2

Today was our day off so we decided to go to Tybee again! It was a really fun day filled with lots of pictures.

What we learned today is that both of us are really bad at understanding what people are saying. Numerous times everyday someone will say something to us as we are walking by or as we are just simply talking to them and neither of us are really sure what they said... so we just smile, nod, and hope for the best.  Its great and happens at least ten times a day.

We have had a busy week in Savannah. On Monday we decided to celebrate Memorial day by going to dinner. We went to this way cool restaurant called the,"Pirate House." It is the coolest looking building and everyone had told us how good the food was. When we walked in there was a man dressed up as a pirate that greeted us. We felt like little children because we couldn't of been more excited. As we got seated we found out that the restaurant used to be a hotel where all the pirates would stay when they came in to Savannah. Our menu told us stories about how there was a tunnel underneath it where the pirates would sit and kidnap people that were walking through. Not only was the place so exciting, but the food was unreal!! We had the best steak and fish we have ever had in our life!

After dinner we went on a little walk! On the walk we realized that Savannah is more than aware of our obsession with One Tree Hill. As we walked down Bull Street we came across Lucas Theatre. For those of you who don't know, Lucas is one of the main characters on the television show One Tree Hill and to say he is a sight for sore eyes is an understatement.

(Need I say more..)

Tuesday night was a fun night. We have this neighbor that owns all these shops downtown and he is the nicest guy. The only problem is that we sometimes can't understand his accent so we still don't know his name. We have now resorted to calling him V.I.P Man because at least we know that his name has those letters in it. Last weekend he invited us over for dinner so on Tuesday we went over for our first home cooked meal since arriving in Savannah. The food was really good, but we had quite the adventure. As we sat there more and more people just kept walking in and talking to us. We think it was their way of welcoming us to the neighborhood, but it still just felt odd.

Wednesday was a glorious day. We finally made it to Walmart! Our goal since landing in Savannah was to get to Walmart to buy the basic necessities. The only problem was that we didn't have a car and Walmart is a good few miles away. Even with the odds against us we didn't give up and it finally all paid off. Walmart was everything we had hoped and dreamed for. It was the closest we have felt to home since leaving. We were almost a little sad to leave, but at least we now have a fully stocked fridge.

All week every week we look forward to our day off and on Thursday it finally came! After much planning on Thursday morning we headed to Tybee Island. As we pulled into Tybee we were amazed as we looked at all the cute little beach houses! All of them were decorated and painted in the brightest colors. It was then that we decided that one day when we are making our millions we will own of the cutest beach houses Tybee has ever seen. The beach was gorgeous, but different than any of the other beaches we have been to before. There were a few shops and houses lining the beach, but other than that it was just the beach and a rather plain dock. It was almost better this way though. Instead of going to the beach and having so much around us we were able to go the beach and just simply enjoy the little things.

We layed out the majority of the time and as we did this we started to make friends with the guys laying next to us. They had lucious hair so we didn't even mind at all. However we found their conversation a little funny. For about a half hour they deeply discussed the number of children they wanted as they grew older. We weren't sure if this was normal for guys to talk about or if it was because they were drunk. Either was it made our day just that much more enjoyable! Needless to say we love Tybee Island and can't wait to go next week.

Friday was a rather uneventful night so we will skip right into Saturday. Our lovely co-worker Alex let us off an hour early so we thought that this would be the perfect time for us to cross the river and go see the Westin. The Westin is a gorgeous resort hotel whose swimming pool is right along the river. We loved relaxing and having story time. After we went swimming we sat by the fire they have and enjoyed the beautiful view of the river.

(The fire and the river behind it)

Yesterday we went to Church. We were excited to be there, but unfortunately after being in sacrament for five minutes we had a upsetting run in with the missionaries. We decided to leave the story off of our blog, but long story short we ended up in the Bishop's office and now we both get to speak in sacrament next Sunday. Don't worry we are really excited.

This week has been a good one! We continue to love Savannah and can't wait for another amazing week!