We just got back from a mini-vacation! It was without a doubt one of the best mini-vacations we've had. It all started with a thought to go down to Savannah this weekend and just have fun. Then, we found out that there was a World Wide Flash Mob going on at the park and so the mini-vacation began to revolve around that!
Our plan for the trip to Savannah really only had two missions: 1. Go to the WWFM and 2. Have fun. We succeeded.
After school and dinner we drove down Friday night to Savannah, looked for a place to stay, saw one that was too expensive and then one that wasn't expensive enough and eventually ventured back out of the city a few miles and grabbed a nice middle-of-the-road hotel. The kids love hotels - I have no idea why. We went to bed.
While at the hotel, we discovered that there were three geocaches in the immediate vicinity that would be a great start for our geo-cation (geocaching + vacation) the next day. We planned them in.
We woke up at 0800 and had some breakfast at the hotel and then checked out at 0930. We picked up three geocaches in Pooler and headed into Savannah. First we crossed over the big bridge and headed out for an off-road cache that was by far the most off-road terrain we've been in since we left Colorado. It had dirt, trees, mud, sand, hills and spiders. And it was the first time the Jeep had expereinced soft deep sand - which it handled with no problem, and at the end, was even playing in it!
We damned near drove up to the cache, dogged some spiders and headed back out. The spiders were big and sneaky, having put up webs between trees and just waiting for some hapless person to wander into them. I doubt they could have eaten one of us, but just in case, we left the kids in the Jeep.
On the way out, we played with the Jeep in the mud and the sand and then took off. We must have caught some rocks or something in the brake because it squealed on and off the rest of the day.
After getting the Jeep all dirty we drove into Savannah and parked by the big, famous cemetary. There is a cache nearby, so we grabbed it and then began our walk to the WWFM. The mob event went off without a hitch and we even won a container to place our own cache! When the event was over, we walked around Savannah and gathered up some more caches and historical sites.
My girls are all Girl Scouts, so we went and saw the first Girl Scout Headquarters and the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (the Girl Scout founder). Then we hopped back in the Jeep and headed out to Tybee Island.
On the island, we found even more caches and played on the beach and in the Atlantic Ocean (for the record, its our second ocean visit of the year - the first was the Pacific off the California coast).
It was dark when we found our last cache (and the skull of some dead animal nearby) near a swamp. It would have been very hard to find any more in the dark, so we headed back to Savannah and picked up two Virtual Caches (caches without a physical container - just a place). When all was said and done, we had finished 16 more caches! Whoo hoo! A new one day record for us!
We drove home safe and sound and everyone is now fast asleep - for the most part. A great mini-vacation!
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