Georgia on my mind

Last weekend we went down to Savannah, GA for a wedding. One of the girls that was in Joe's class at UNCC (she decided to move down to a program in FL now) got married. It was a cool little church in the historic section of the city, with lots of stained glass windows, a big pipe organ, and a balcony. It kind of reminded me of the Provo Tabernacle actually. Karen was the flower girl for the wedding, and she was so cute! They got her this gorgeous little dress and she had flowers in her hair and everything. The only problem with having a 2 year old as the flower girl is that she dumped all the flowers in one spot at the entrance to the church and someone took the empty basket from her instead of letting her just walk down the aisle. This caused her to freak out a bit and she cried (screamed more like it) halfway down the aisle. But otherwise the wedding was really great. It was almost like what you see in the movies! I think this was my first time being at a 'real' wedding except when I was a little kid.

The reception was at a cool old hotel in the historic district too. They had some good food (not the best, but I acutally like my steak cooked so that may throw off my opinion a bit) and we met some of Marissa's friends at our table. If Rachel hadn't flipped out halfway through and Karen hadn't fallen asleep we would have stayed for the dancing and everything, but it was almost 10:30 by the time we got finished with everything.

While we were there we stopped to see some things on Saturday morning/afternoon. It was really hot outside (near 100 with lots of humidity) but Savannah is a cool old place where the trees have grown so big that it's shady in most spots (at least where we were). Think Forrest Gump; the parts where he's sitting on the bench telling the story were filmed in Savannah. We saw some cool old houses, went down to the riverfront with cool old buildings and stuff (now they're all resturants), and even met a Haitian artist named Alix Baptiste who gave us one of his postcards for free after Joe spoke Haitian to him for a few minutes. On Sunday before we came home we went to Fort Pulaski, which was built in 1847 and was used in the Civil war. It was cool, but we couldn't let Karen run everywhere she wanted because the moat around the fort has 3 alligators in it who I'm sure would have loved having her for a snack. Luckily we didn't see them. We also tried to go to the beach at Tybee Island, but Karen had just about had it. We ended up going for about 10 minutes, just long enough for everyone to get their feet wet a bit. Rachel loved it; Karen did not. It was a long car ride home with a very tired toddler and an out of sorts infant, but it was a nice weekend trip. It's cool to go see some of the stuff around here; there's so many 'old' things!