Downtown Savannah

This past week we were fortunate enough to have friends from Washington come visit us for a few days.  Eric and Lareasa are our friends that had their little girl, Brooklyn, the same day Grayson was born.  They also had a baby girl, Kelyn, who is now 6 months old.  Lareasa had surprised Eric for his birthday with a trip out here since they both love the south and wanted to make sure they had a chance to come out and see us within this first year of living here.  We celebrated Eric's birthday with my family's traditional butter cake and managed to fit a lot in during the time they were here!  On Sunday, we went to downtown Savannah to walk around and enjoy some lunch.  There was an old ship docked there at River Street and we were able to take the kids on it to see inside.  

There are people all over Savannah that make roses out of palm branches.  They are sold like how you would see people trying to get men to buy a real rose for their girlfriend or wife walking by on the street.  A man was handing them out for free to the little girls and moms by the ship so Grayson and Brooklyn found lots of enjoyment out of the roses for awhile. :)

We also took a trolley ride tour while in Savannah.  Grayson had gone on one with my mom this summer while we stayed downtown while house hunting.  My mom said he did really well on the trolley with her.  We were not as fortunate to have him behave as well this time!  This is the one and only picture I got on the trolley due to him not wanting to sit on the seat or in a lap and wanting to get up and run around.  Thankfully the driver talked over a loud speaker so his screaming at times did not drown out what they were saying.  

We stopped before our tour was up at one of the stops by the park for the kids to get out and run around.  Needless to say, once they hopped back in the stroller to walk around town a bit they were fast asleep!  Our Christmas gift from Grandma and Grandpa Campbell (the double stroller) came in quite handy during our friends visit!

These are a couple pictures from Lareasa's camera from the trolley tour.  

It was a fun and long day of exploring Savannah and of course the kids were then in need of a bath before bed!  Who can resist the cliche bathtub pictures?!  Grayson and Brooklyn had fun playing together in our big master tub, and Will was just as happy to have them out of the way while he cleaned up from dinner (I was just as happy to not have dishes to do! :))

Our next adventure was to Hilton Head Island.... which you will see pictures in the next post! :)