July 17 - Work and Play

Ah to sleep in! Poor Bill was up twice to take Xena out so he really was not ready to get up this morning. Then just after 8 there was a banging on our door and a coast guard guy said we were not to use the water as they had to prime the pump on the island and someone would be back over to let us know once it was OK to use. No big deal. We had our Sunday breakfast and Bill was going to do some things outside using water but decided he couldn’t so it was a good morning to do some serious cleaning. Bill used Orange Glo on all wood in the RV and cleaned the tops of the slides inside which were pretty dirty. I did a very thorough vacuum job and used the attachment to clean the furniture also. There was so much cat hair everywhere.

We took Xena and made a quick run to Tybee Island to get a Sunday paper and after lunch we still had not heard back about the water, so I turned our pump on and we used the water from our fresh water tank to take showers. We left about 3:30 to go to the movies. First we stopped at Target which is in the same plaza and I got a new mouse to use with the netbook. We went to see “Horrible Bosses” and it was so funny. The sad thing is there really are bosses out there like that. Then we headed into downtown Savannah for our 6:30 dinner reservation at The Olde Pink House.

The Olde Pink House

Dessert

The house was built in 1771 as the Habersham House and became called the Old Pink House as the brick began to bleed through the plaster changing the color to a Jamaican Pink. It sits on Reynold’s Square and was the property of a wealthy planter. Later it was the Planters Bank, the first bank of Georgia. The old vaults are now used as wine cellars. During the Civil War General York set up shop in the mansion. Over the years the mansion was a bookstore, attorney office, and a tea room until in 1992 it was restored to its original elegance. Everyone says it has ghosts especially in the handicapped restroom. The room we ate it was upstairs and was set up for all couples. Each table had a single white taper lit. It was a bit dark at our table to read the menu by. Would have been better to have gotten a window table. The food was excellent. I started off with a peach martini, yummy! The bread basket contained mini corn muffins, biscuits and herbed yeast rolls. We shared a salad called a BLT. It had fried green tomatoes with sweet bacon and a black pepper thyme buttermilk dressing over a bed of spring greens. For dinner Bill had a filet with twice baked potato and asparagus. I had Crispy Scored Flounder with Apricot Shallot Sauce with grits and collard greens. It was a whole flounder without the head that was cut in diamonds on each side then a crust and was flash fried. The meat came off the bone in sections due to the diamond scoring. I only managed to eat one side and brought the other side home for leftovers. We were going to pass on dessert but then relented and shared the house specialty, Praline Dessert Cup, which was a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream topped with fresh fruit served in a waffle cone type cup of almond praline. . It was the perfect finish to such a fine meal.

Huge Tanker

We thought about driving around a bit since it was so nice out but figured we had left Xena long enough so headed home. As we came down the highway we could see a huge boat headed up our side of the island. From the end it looked like 2 boats side by side or that they were not moving and one was off loading from the other. We hurried home to maybe catch was what going on. As we drove further we could see the boat was barely moving. Once in the park and on the road to our RV we could see it and pulled over to the river side to watch. It was just one boat, a tanker, and it was being towed by a tugboat, explaining why it was going to slow. There were 2 more tugs following behind. It was the biggest we’ve seen on the river by far.

We did manage to count 20 deer on the way in but might have missed some in our haste to catch up to the boat. Bill did up the day’s dishes and we read and watched a show at 10. I read for as long as my eyes would stay open, which was not long.  No one ever got back to us on the water so we just started using it again.