Vacation (part 3)

Midweek brought a couple more fun and relaxing days.  We headed to the south end of the island to an area called Sea Pines.  It's known for its shopping area and the Salty Dog Cafe.  We checked out the docks and stopped to snap a few family photos

 

The girls...

 

The boys...

The Heines!  :)

Reegan...

Later on in the evening we took the opportunity to go on a sunset dolphin cruise.  There are hundreds of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins around the island and so we hopped on a boat to try to see some of them.

We did find a couple!

They swam all around the boat.

Gavin just enjoyed the fresh air.

On Thursday we ventured over to Savannah, GA to explore the historic downtown area.  We decided to take a trolley tour around town to make sure we saw all of the important things.  First stop - Lady and Sons restaurant.  This is Paula Dean's place and it's a very popular spot for tourists. 

So, naturally, we ate there!  It was some pretty good southern cookin'.

The rest of the tour took us around all of the original squares that made up the city back in the colonial days.  The original colonies in America all had 24 squares in their capital cities and Savannah still maintains 21 of those 24.  It was really interesting to see all of these.  Nearly every one had some sort of fountain or statue in the center that signified a piece of American history.  It was really interesting.

I think the kids enjoyed the trolley ride too!

 

Only one more post on this trip.  We just had SO MANY pictures from our adventure we just keep posting!  Hope you're enjoying them!  :)