Hatch Adventures: life is like a box of chocolates.

while in georgia we want to get in as much southern hospitality as we can, so we decided to take a long-weekend trip to georgia's oldest town, savannah.

along the way, we first stopped at a real southern, georgia peach farm. it was something like a picture book, it was so surreal to drive through the beautiful and endless peach and pecan orchards.

i had to try out the john deere

best dang peach cobbler i have ever had! it was so good (and so hot out) the ice cream melted before it got to your mouth.

and of course out in the country we saw this along the way...which was only funny for like the .5 seconds it took to take the picture and then my LA self started in about how horrible the traffic was behind this guy. (i guess you can take a girl out of california but can never take california out of a girl...hey y'all, i'm just a different kind of southern...)

and then we finally made it to savannah, and i fell in love. i can't even begin to describe my amazement with the history and beauty of the town. every street was lined with overhanging trees and spanish moss. it was like being in a movie...

but seriously...they filmed forrest gump right here.

check it out:

our overall goal for the weekend was to try and do the best that savannah could offer. so naturally we started with the food. the first night we ate on the river at a seafood restaurant and tried shrimp and grits, a southern classic, and i now know why--delicious! our favorite by far was our second night, dining at the pirate house. a little history about savannah: it is the oldest town in georgia. being that, the oldest building in the oldest town is the pirate house, and yes, real pirates use to live and dine there! so of course, we had to try it out! and it was most definitely decorated theme appropriate.

and this my friends is a picture of the best piece of fried chicken on this great, green earth. another southern and georgia classic, pecan-crusted fried chicken. no words can express the goodness that was in every bite.

the second biggest highlight of our trip was a ghost-walking tour. because not only is savannah the oldest town in georgia, it is also 'the most haunted town in america'! so going on a ghost hunt was a given. sadly we did not see any roaming spirits during out night-time stroll, but we did learn some spooky and educational facts about savannah, such as: this use to be the hanging square of the town, and people use to hang in this tree here; or the sidewalk is sunken in where you are standing because there are graves below and the ground has given way. we found it fascinating!

some other fun things we did over the weekend included going to fort pulaski, a civil war monument where the south fell to the north and we got to watch 19th century cannons fire; visiting every candy shop in town; making a stop to the paula deen store and getting a 'hey y'all' sign souvenir; and i certainly could not leave out a trip to the juliette gordon low house.