It’s amazing how doing nothing can be so tiring. Having fallen asleep by 11:00 the night before, I woke up at 7:00, got showered and dressed and walked over to Big Murgies Den for the International coffee tasting. Since it was still early, I brought my book with me to read. At 9:00 there was activity and nobody else was around, so I inquired at the front desk and was told it was cancelled doe to lack of response. That will teach me. I procrastinated responding, thinking it wouldn’t be a problem, that enough people would have responded, that I could just show up.

    Today was our day to visit Savannah. We left at 11:00. The front desk had printed directions that we picked up on the way out. They are very detailed and a good idea to pick up when planning excursions into Savannah. The directions took us through the low country straight to the visitor’s center. The approach to Savannah takes you over one of the steepest bridges I’ve ever seen. The tour guide on the trolley tour we took told us about the bridge and how the Savannah residents got to vote on its name. They ended up with just appending "new" in front of the existing name to make it the New Eugene Talmidge Memorial Bridge.

    We took the Old Town Trolley, as recommended to us by the DVC folks. It makes twelve stops that we were able to get off and back on freely. The trolleys stop every thirty minutes. Every once in a while the tour guide would ask trivia questions for which he/she would award gold coin for the correct answer. When we got on for the third time, the tour guide, Joyce, asked who the Indian chief was that befriended Oglethorpe and Seth, Elana and I all answered it correctly. The fact that it seemed to be the answer of all the previous questions, seemed to help. In case you ever take this tour, the answer is Chief Tomocheechee. The coins are cute, they say Vacation Decision Maker on them, as if flipping it helps make vacation decisions. Nice coin, but when you belong to DVC, you don’t need the help of a coin.

    We headed back to Hilton Head at 3:30 and after stopping at the room for a short rest, we went to the Old Oyster Factory for dinner. We got there just as they opened. Although we had reservations, we didn’t need them that early. Big difference during the off season. When we ate there in ’96, having reservations (a DVC privilege) definitely helped, since there was a line at the door then. Even by the time we finished, the restaurant was half-full this time around.

    Back to the room and time for Elana’s tour of Disney’s Hilton Head Resort. She had been planning this all day. You know how some kids play doctor or house? Elana likes to play CM. Her older brother and sister were at first reluctant to play along. But with a little coercion, we convinced them that they really wanted to come along. She did a fine job, although she had a little trouble with the resort map, sometimes turning one way when she should have gone the other way. After the tour, the kids went to Big Murgies Den and I went back to the room.