Sisters of the New South do Savannah!

So.....one of my besties invited me to meet her in Savannah....she used to live in SD and we have traveled together all over the world and had some wonderful trips....she lives near West Palm Beach and offered to drive to Savannah and pick me up....who was I to say no?

had been awhile since I had been in the 'Deep South"....I love the South, however, I forget certain *charms*. This was the kind of trip where we would look over to side of the road and if we wanted to stop we did....this place was a swap meet at the Beer Pond - all men go to the Beer Pond for $1.50 pitcher of beers and these storage units are filled with indoor swap meet stuff that the ladies shop at....I don't judge, I only observe....

When you are in the South it is all about the food....here is one of our fine breakfasts, me: the patty melt with sweet potato fries; Tracy had the scrambled eggs, bacon , hash brown and biscuits.

We stayed at the beautiful and delicious Amelia Island Omni Plantation in an incredible villa....the nightly rate was a whopping $350.00; however, due to the many power outages because of a tropical storm warning we negotiated a rate of $92.00....sweet...it had a full kitchen which we never used, a lovely living room, a balcony overlooking the surf and a huge bedroom with 2 king beds......luxury!

We also went to the famous Tybee Island - they were having a Pirate Festival and many of the locals dressed like this......very professional pirates....we loved the lighthouse there! They say Tybee Island is a drinking town with a fishing problem :)

Of course we stopped at Cracker Barrel....we had to play the peg game, Sorry Tracy, I am ''brilliant" according the the pegs and you are a 'dimwit'....love you anyway.

Savannah has incredible historical homes filled with antiques like this lovely.....mmmmmm















And if you go to Savannah you must visit the Bonaventure Cemetery...it is incredible, large trees with Spanish moss and the most unique cemetery stones....from back to the Civil War! We kept thinking this would be the most fantastic place for a Halloween Party!!!













Comfort food at SoHo South Cafe....yum.....best of both worlds, food and art!

The museum in Savannah.....'Midnight at the Garden of Good and Evil' based here....
love that book and movie~have you read/seen it......it really happened!

Such cute kitchen shops near City Market....one of the towels said 'Happy Fall Y'All! I got a 10% discount for wearing Leopard - my kind of shop!












Tracy and I at Macks, cate te corner from Paula Deens - a real 5 & 10.....it was like stepping back in time, I LOVED it.











.....more fun shops

City Market.....beautiful and fun...yes those are fresh Pralines....and had so much fun in the Junk/Antique shop
















I would have purchased this church window, but hard to put in carry on on Continental! I loved pilfering thru all the junk and found this cast iron english springer spaniel door stopper for a price I could not refuse!

How cute is this "True Grits!'


















The lovely Savannah Waterfront....













Loved the architecture and the squares......I should live in the South sometime

Yummy comfort good...lima beans over rice; fried chicken, mac & cheese and cornbread!




Tracy had the fried chicken, lima beans, okra and sweet pods....





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Loved the service!

Awwwwww Savanah....I will come see you again!

The Wild Wild West

Steve and I took off last weekend and crossed the CA/AZ desert yet one more time....if you have never done that, you can expect to see about 300 miles that look exactly like this:

....boring, yes, but beautiful and peaceful and nice to look at something besides concrete....we load up on corn nuts and diet coke (classy travelers that we are) and head out....on this trip we stayed with some of our Besties, the Villalovos, in their beautiful home in Trilogy way out north off Happy Valley Road....home to coyotes, mountain lions and even fox! A beautiful reminder of the Wild Wild West....


One day we took a drive to Prescott - so many good memories there when we were little and we had close friends that lived there and we would go to the Round Up Rodeo's

Love the flags around the old courthouse, the old Navajo sign and the wooden Indian. We shopped all around the antique stores....a beautiful day and we had a great lunch together.

You can't help but feel old when you see stuff you used to have in Antique stores....The prints with the little boys were the Northern Tissue Prints that my mom got for my brothers room and my sister and I had the girl prints......every little girl in AZ back in the 50's/60's had a squaw dress....mine was turquoise with silver rick rack....just like this one!

The next day the guys went in hot pursuit for Quail! Armed and dangerous they headed out to Bloody Basin....over the rocks and thru the brush and even 4 wheeling in our truck that has never seen a dirt road.....the bounty from 3 seasoned hunters on an all day hunt: 2 quail, 1 flat tire and one large rattlesnake

So while the cowboys were out in search of bounty; us cowgirls hit the wonderful and enchanting Glendale Antique stores - can't get enough of those places!

We ate at Ms. CeeCee's which was a repurpopsed cottage house where they served lunch in the living room and all the bedrooms and even the bathroom had items to purchase.....I just had to take a picture of the bathroom with the commode and all the stuff for sale in the bathtub....they make it easy! Also went to several other shops, Hobby Lobby and Michael's....my girlfriend is the undisputed 'Queen of Halloween' and I just follow her around and get amazed at her ability to create.....not only that but she is a fab cook....a little Martha Stewart in the Wild West!

We've got the Fever - Gold Fever!

It's official.....we've got the fever - Gold Fever that is!!!

Steve, Rocky, myself and Steve's two brothers went to a dry creek bed near Temecula known for having gold claims and dug in the dirt and had so much fun collecting specimen samples....it was hot - look at Rocky!!!!

Later, after we had our 'samples' we took them back to his brothers house near Palm Springs and put them thru the processing......

We were just oh so sure that we hit a mini mother lode of gold flour, there was gold everywhere I tell ya! All over our hands and arms, in the pan, sparkling and oh so beautiful!!!!

We filled up the sample vile that said gold sunk to the bottom and our little chunks did! The other gold flour we tried to separate from our 'black sand' and put in baggies to take into the purveyors office, just like they say in the book.....then we toasted with some special wine I bought for the occasion 'Prospect 49 a Boom Town Red" pretty fitting heh?

The next day we drove by the purveyors with our gold flour....which turns out to be ***fools gold'....pretty fitting heh?

Jury still out on our little nuggets.....here's hoping!!!!

Gentle Signs of Fall.....

The annual Woody's Car show at Moonlight Beach....

always a fall classic favorite to look at these beauties....

Getting out the fall table setting.....love love love these colors....

Just adds warmth and comfort to the table.....

Last but not least, breaking out my Classic Coach Brown Bag.....it's official - even tho the temperature remains in the 70's and 80's Fall is on the way!!!

The beat goes on....and it is funk (not funky)

The beat goes on, no matter how I try to change it.....maybe this is just the funk I need to be in right now and embrace it and try to learn why I feel this way and the lesson that it is trying to teach me.....

A brief respite on Wednesday - a surprise call and invite to go Thrifting - fun things found for projects and play....(another chandelier for (hopefully) weekend project; new keyboard badly needed in my office, nerf arsenal for my boys, play house for Brody, wooden cigar box - really into those lately, round picture frame for future project, Fitz and Floyd Ho Ho Ho Christmas tray for only $2.00!...toal spend $30.00....now only need motivation.....