Savannah, GA

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I slept well here in Savannah. It poured rain after dinner. Clay and others complained of ship's horns around 2-3am but I didn't hear anything until trucks backing up about 6:10am. We had a leisurely breakfast and headed out for the Segway tour place about 9am. We ha 45 minutes to find it and got there early. It was much hotter today with a forecast high of 77F and stormy in the afternoon.

We ended up having a private Segway tour. That is always a happy occurrence, especially when we saw the sized groups with the other provider. Good for us but I guess not so good for the provider. We had a good tour. It was a good refresher. I think we glided by or stopped at all but 7 of the 22 squares. We went through the Victorian District. We went inside The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. It was beautiful. We got a refresher on Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. We heard about the current movie production in town of the new Lady & the Tramp. At the end of the tour we asked for a nearby lunch suggestion and were directed to Crystal Beer Parlor. We went and enjoyed it. When we got inside I remembered it from our first meal on a previous trip to Savannah. Clay asked what we'd had and it was chili. Today he had a fried oyster sandwich and I had BBQ pulled pork nachos. He had a beer and I had a root beer. Sitting in our booth, I followed up on a sign we'd seen while walking for a free DOT circulator bus. We walked a few blocks down Jones Street, past Mrs. Wilkes, to the closest stop. We rode back to within a few blocks. We detoured down the Riverfront for some shopping. When the first wave of this afternoon's storms passed, we deployed umbrellas and got back without getting too wet.

We thought hard about eating out here tonight, but decided to stay aboard. One the rain! Two, tonight is the Captain's pilot house tour, cocktail hour and dinner. I think the only thing special will be opening the bridge. We've already ordered dinner and it is a repeat of a previous menu, but the Captain is making such an effort, we'd hate to stand him up.

I'll post this now, if needed I'll come back.

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