WIAW, Midnight Train to Georgia

Well this might be the latest I have ever blogged! But I couldn’t pass up a WIAW so I decided I would post whenever we ended up getting home from Jekyll Island, which was apparently midnight. So as most of you are probably reading this on Thursday, good morning/afternoon! 🙂

 

We took our sweet time with the drive back today and actually had an awesome time. As I usually do on Wednesdays, I’ll tell you all about the day through what we ate!

Breakfast: pineapple, cantaloupe, strawberries, yogurt, coffee (and later snagged a bagel with jelly)

Snacks: random food from the conference, some popcorn and then later this mixed nut dessert bar of some kind that was really tasty

Lunch: crab legs, fried okra, cheese grits, water

I was CRAVING crab legs the entire time we were down there and someone gave us a great recommendation for this place on the water called Skipper’s that’s on the trip towards Atlanta. The crab legs were so fresh and meaty.

And the sides were delicious too, perfectly seasoned and piping hot.

This place was so charming and just all around a great stop.

They had all sorts of animals on the property! Right in front of the restaurant is a little pond full of fish and turtles.

A cat!

And we even spotted WILD gators right outside under the pier. Yikes. I was happy to have a zoom lens that enabled me to take good pictures but still be plenty far away from Mr. Gator.

We decided after lunch that we had to stop in Savannah. It was one of the stops on our honeymoon, one of our favorite, and we were so close on the drive back that we just couldn’t help it. It was so strange driving into Savannah again, I was having major deja vu. All the familiar sights of the city greeted us and it felt just like it did when we were honeymooning! The horse and carriage tours…

The cobblestone roads…

The beautiful buildings…

The very tall stairways…

And last but of course not least, the amazing food of all different kinds. When we first arrived we went to City Market downtown, which is FULL of good food, and lots of other fun things.

I immediately went toward Gelatohhh, a wonderful little place that we remembered well from the honeymoon.

Mid Afternoon Dessert: passion fruit gelato

How about a little flashback to when we were the happy honeymooners? 🙂

Crazy! I think we look even better now. 😛 We definitely look older, which is weird because it’s only been a year! Anyways, after a delicious gelato we walked down to River Street to see more sights and make reservations for dinner. River Street is one of the most popular attractions in Savannah, it’s a historic street full of shops and restaurants that’s directly across the cobblestone road from the river.

Lucky for us the crowds were low for some reason and because it was overcast the weather was AMAZING, I’m talking in the 70’s amazing!!! We took a nice long walk and visited our favorite candy shop along the way to pick up some fresh pralines to take home.

Eventually we made it to our dinner reservation at Vic’s on the River. This was one of my favorite restaurants from the honeymoon and it was pretty reasonably priced so we decided to visit again.

We weren’t really that hungry (probably something to do with having dessert before dinner…) so we just went light and shared an entree.

Dinner: biscuits as a starter, side salad, burger with gruyere cheese, and a “Vic’s mojito”

The food was excellent, just as we had remembered, and everything really hit the spot. We felt full for the remainder of our trip into Atlanta.

So that’s what I ate Wednesday on our midnight train to Georgia! Too bad coming in at midnight also means crazily finishing a blog post at 2am…yeesh. But I’m not worried because our boss was nice enough to give us the NEXT TWO DAYS OFF since we worked at the conference through last weekend!!!

I am off to BED. Thanks for reading!

-Lauren