Day 5/6...Savannah/Atlanta

We are currently in Atlanta, but I want to backtrack to Savannah, day 5, since I left out what we did with our short time there.  We arrived around 3:30 and checked in to our motel and then drove down to the Visitor's Center, which, just like Charleston, uses an old train depot for it's location - both really nice buildings.  Savannah has a fairly small downtown area, and we're big on walking, so we picked up some brochures and headed back to the car to move it to a free spot on the street and start checking out

the city.   Since it was pretty late in the day already, we decided to walk around River Street, a sunken street with shops and restaurants and then signed up to do a haunted pub crawl after dinner.  We ate at a little seafood place on River on their outside deck, which was nice - we met a cute couple from Rochester that gave us their extra french bread.  Nice.  After dinner, we did some more walking around and then met up with our tour group outside the Moon River Brewing Company, the first haunted site on our tour.  Our group consisted of some older people, some younger people and quite a few people that were much further into their drinking for the day.  The tour basically included walking to four different bars in the area and listening to haunted tales of Savannah, supposedly the most haunted city in the United States.  It was definitely interesting and a little creepy, especially at the first spot, where we went to the second floor of the building, basically only used for storage for the restaurant, but completely unusable otherwise - it was scary.  Beer was up to you, so I just had one there, since they brewed their own and I was driving...but it was pretty cool because Savannah's Historic District is one of the few places left in the country where you can drink alcohol outside, as long as it's in a plastic cup - perfect for a bar crawl.

For today, we wanted to get to Atlanta somewhat early, so we decided to take a 90-minute trolley ride tour in Savannah, which started around 9:30 AM.  It was actually really interesting and perfect for the amount of time we had...thanks David!  We were then off to HOTlanta, which was at least 85 degrees...perfect for us really pale people.

Atlanta is about 4 hours from Savannah, so we stopped at Chik-fil-a, which I've been dying to try - turns out it's nothing special after breakfast - oh, well.

Our first day in Atlanta was interesting - we followed directions to the Visitor's Center, which took us to the Atlanta Underground.  If you've ever been to Seattle, the Atlanta Underground is quite another situation...basically a scary, indoor mall, made to look like it's outside (http://www.underground-atlanta.com/).  We met a nice woman at the Visitor's Center who didn't let on that we were in a sketchy area at all, so we left our car in the parking garage and walked to Olympic Centennial Park, which is actually really nice and a tribute to commemorate the '96 Olympics.  After doing a little people-watching, we headed back to the car and off to our hotel - we've actually upgraded a bit for this area and are in a nice suburb north of Atlanta, Marietta.  After generic, gift card Applebee's dinner, we are ready for bed to get ready for a full day tomorrow.