Today is Halloween, so I thought it would be appropriate to continue with our Georgia trip and our day in Savannah on the Riverboat and the Haunted tour that followed…
Following our tour and free-time shuffling through Savannah, Ashleigh and I met up with our Sons of the Desert friends Bob, Marcia, and Lori and boarded a riverboat that travelled up and down the Savannah River. I always enjoy a nice riverboat cruise even when there is really nothing going on.
Ashleigh and I always make our own fun, usually quietly observing others and giggling incessantly. We snapped a couple of nice photos as part of our ‘Sleeping Sons’ series as people nodded off amidst the relaxing whirr of the paddlewheels as we sloshed down the river. I had my iPod so I also listened to a couple of renditions of Cruising Down the River as we…you guessed it…cruised down the river.
The Sorkin family and crouching intruder get ready to board the Riverboat
Bob sneaks a picture of Ashleigh and me as we board
Ashleigh is a sucker for a riverboat cruise
Seeing what all of the fuss about these sunglasses is all about
Some of the Sons members clearly had better things to do
Bob Duncan, for instance, was hard at work on his summer tan
Mark Turner was anxious to see what was going on in dreamland
Even I didn’t escape the harsh truth of the camera eye
Marcia, ever the Johnny Depp fan, enjoyed listening to a ride-through of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland on my iPod and forced Bob to listen in as well. Once the cruise ended, we un-boarded the ship and rushed to have a nice, quick meal before we had to meet for a walking tour of ‘Haunted Savannah.’
Bob and Marcia share my headphones
This gal apparently shares with anyone, including Lee, who is wearing blue butterfly scrubs
This was a disappointment. As Bob pointed out, the tour guide can make or break a tour like this. Ours sucked. He was much more interested in stopping at the pubs and exercising his legal right to drink openly on the Savannah streets. For the most part, his tales of the unexplained in Savannah were unmemorable; therefore I don’t remember them enough to share them even if I wanted to.
The coolest thing we saw was a cemetery in which a lady in black stood among the tombstones looking scary. Why she was there, I have no idea. The photo is even creepier than seeing it live so I display it for you as a Halloween offering. After passing the graveyard, we entered one local pub and were told to take photos inside a certain room. Ashleigh’s digital camera yielded some ‘ghost images’ so she was excited about that. Then the whole group was kicked out of the pub because some of us were minors.
Come closer…Closer
Ghost or hoax?
Once the tour ended, we re-boarded the bus and headed back to Augusta. The next day the convention would be starting, but the first activity wasn’t until that evening, so we could sleep in and relax for most of the day. Hooray!
Sarah and I also rode on the riverboat and went on a haunted pub tour. Our tour guide actually told us she was making some stories up. I felt bad for her though. She wasn’t from Savannah, and our group was almost all native Savannahians (pronounced Savan-ians) and one local historian, so they were correcting almost everything she said. But at least we were making good use of the open container law in downtown Savannah.
Chris Tangeman
November 6th, 2006