Sunday, January 18, 2009

Savannah Visit



We had an awesome time with my brother and his wife at their house in Savannah this weekend.



My brother is a stinkin' rock star to my boys; they were so excited! Casey and I were excited, too, because Jeremy and Marie love food as much as we do, and we knew they would know all the cool resteraunts to try (our great vacation pastime).


We ate at a cuban place with awesome food and yucky sangria (canned fruit, yuck!) one night, and lunch at a greek resteraunt with flaming cheese and awesome bread with real butter (I'm a bit of a butter fiend, since Casey is lactose intolerant, and I only get it when we eat out at certain places. I've been known to lick it right out of the little plastic containers.....mmmmm.....)

Sunday we walked around downtown to look at art. The museum we were going to didn't have free admission to residents of the county like we had heard, so we opted out and created out own art:


Then we looked around at all the shops and galleries. Lots of beautiful stuff. Cole chose his favorite piece, which they printed on note cards:

Casey had a favorite, too:


And Maddy practiced naming her colors in a gallery aptly named "Chroma":


Cole SWORE this was a real pirate ship. It was, in fact, a really neat ship that had been restored and was open for free tours. It was really cool. This picture was taken right before it started to sho-nuff rain, and Maddy was already getting pretting wet.
You can take carriage tours of the city, which we did not do, but as you can see by the look on Maddy's face, just seeing the horses (Gasp: "Horseeees!!!") was a delight.

Back at the house, we chilled out and dried off (we had gotten drenched walking back to our car). Marie made so wicked-tasty Chicken curry, and the boys worked on their video game. Yes worked--my brother, in his spare time, creates video games. (I think I may have mentioned that in a previous blog). Anyway, he and the boys spent the weekend, off and on, creating "Bat Cole", complete with theme music, sound effects, and evil ninjas. Here's the link, if anyone would like to download it to play (I promise my brother's site won't give you a computer virus): http://www.darthlupi.com/games/cole.zip. That's my brother's voice that announces, "BAT COLE!" when it first starts, Casey provides the, "GOOD JOB!", and Cole's talent is lent to the karate-chop-'hiya's. (One note, when you hit the ninjas, that's not blood, their pink eyes just get bigger...go figure.) You use the right and left mouse buttons to make Bat Cole fight the ninjas that chase him.
We played a rediculous board game, Quelf, which was introduced to us by my good friend Bethany, who was introduced to it by her good friend Carrie. It was truly silly. One of the cards made us all talk by putting "izzle" at the end of each sentence, which my brother decided to continue to do, even after we had finished playing.
It was a great visit, but it made me miss my brother terribly. I can't wait until the make the move back in a few years.

3 comments:

  1. I am so happy that you found the game Quelf. Is it not the most ridiculous thing you have ever done? SO random. sounds like a fun weekend!

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  2. Glad yall had such a great trip. I fell in love with that game!!! I dont like acting stupid, BUT it was still fun! I cant wait to play it again. In fact, I am thinking of ordering it so I can have my own copy. :)

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  3. Somehow I never read this posting... it's like it got swallowed up by the twilight zone or something, and I never saw it.
    Looks, and sounds, like it was a really great weekend. I love Maddy's face with the horses! So cute! And of course, I am thrilled that you liked Quelf - it is undeniably fabulous! When you come up to visit me when I move to N. GA, I will set up a "playdate" with Corey and Carrie and we will all play it together (minus Andy... but I won't think about that right now)
    Anyway, good times all around!

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