Anniversary Trip Day 3a: Anniversary Dinner and Savannah Ghost Tour

Thursday July 28, 2022

We woke up not too early and ate a hot breakfast in the hotel lobby. Afterwards, we packed up our things and got in the car to drive through South Carolina. We drove and drove all the way to Savannah, GA. We checked into a bed and breakfast that was originally an old boarding house from the 1880s called McMillan Inn.

All the old houses in Savannah have the main entrance on the second floor.

Erik surprised me with some chocolate-covered strawberries!

Our four-post bed was really high off the ground.

This fancy mirror was set up as a sliding barn door, but it didn't completely cover the doorway to the bathroom.

After checking in, relaxing in our room, and eating chocolate-covered strawberries, we headed out for an early dinner at Jazz'd Tapas. We ordered the tapas for 2, which gave each of us an appetizer and a dessert and four tapas to share.

Erik ordered 5 onion soup.

I had the coconut mushroom soup, which was surprisingly peppery. But still delicious.

We ordered Thai chicken lettuce wraps and blackened salmon.

Lamb chops

The cheese platter came with havarti dill, brie, smoked gouda, fruit, bread, and a grilled garlic clove.

Erik ordered creme brulé, and I got a brownie with salted caramel gelato.

We had a few extra minutes after dinner, so we waddled around downtown Savannah looking in some of the shops. We bought another magnet. Then we drove over to the meeting place for our next ghost tour: Savanah History and Haunts. Our tour guide was very friendly, and we were looking forward to the tour until a group of ten showed up as part of a bachelorette party. If they weren't already drunk, they came prepared with drinks in their hands. They wouldn't stop talking and kept interrupting our guide. He even asked them to be quiet a couple times, but they just stayed at the back of the group and kept chatting loudly. Fortunately, we lost them along the way. The tour guide's boss showed up to talk to him about the situation; maybe he also went back to make sure the bachelorette party didn't find us again. All I know is the tour got a lot better after they left.

The main thoroughfare in Savannah is lined with trees covered in Spanish moss.

We met in Oglethorpe square; Oglethorpe established Savannah as a military outpost to defend the colonies against the Spanish in Florida in the 1600s.

Savannah is so touristy; we saw dozens of horse-drawn carriages.

That's the bachelorette party in the background holding their drinks.

Our tour guide did a good job reenacting some of the stories as he told them. This is where a battle of the Revolutionary War was fought when the colonies lost many, many soldiers.

Another horse-drawn carriage, and the bachelorette party is gone!

The gates of Colonial Park Cemetery were pushed back when the road was expanded. Our guide happily informed us that there are bodies underneath the sidewalk and the road.

The Spanish moss almost seemed to glow at night next to the streetlamps.

After the ghost tour, we had to find our way back to our car on our own from the cemetery. We had to make sure to park on the correct street at the bed and breakfast since the street sweepers clean the roads every night. We explored the bed and breakfast a bit more before going to bed.

We sat on the patio swing for a while, but it was too humid to enjoy it very long.

McMillan Inn was full of antique everything!

We assumed that the red velvet cookies and other treats were complimentary.