campfire anthems

for today’s photoshop trick i will be walking around the heart of savannah, ga.  visiting art museums and old cathedrals.  what?  you didn’t really expect me to work and think up a lesson on my vacation did you?  at least there will be some art in my day, even if it doesn’t involve photoshop.  maybe i’ll get some good pictures to post.

savannah is such a cool place.  lots of history to tell.  i’m going to have some great stories and pictures to tell when i get back.  no time now though, its time to hit the city and start walking.  what will we find?  i don’t know but i’ll tell you this weekend in the savannah post mordem post.  caio.

hey world.  we just got back from st. augustine a couple of hours ago so let me fill you in on our adventures.  we arrived yesterday, just after lunch.  luckily, our hotel room was ready, so we got to check in early.  our room was pretty much the nicest hotel room i have ever stayed in.  we walked in to find a huge bed and a jacuzzi in the main room, tucked away neatly in the corner.  this thing even had ceramic tile steps leading into it.  fantastic!  after a quick look around the room, and after ditching our bag of luggage we headed out into the heart of the city.

since the hotel was right on the corner of the main strip of historic downtown st. augustine, we were able to walk everywhere we went.  the very first store we visited was an art store (i think emily had a scheme to go home with a piece of art for our new house).  emily fell in love with an original oil painting on canvas.  it is pictured below.

we negotiated a little, since it was the off season, secured a price, and headed to see if there was anything better out there.  this is how we spent much of the day, walking from art gallery to art gallery.  we found nothing that we liked, so we called it a day.  we headed back to the hotel to shower and relax before dinner.

we once more trekked across town to o.c. white’s for dinner and a drink.  the food was pretty good, but the service was pretty horrendous.   our waiter was training a new girl.  i think that should pretty much sum up our entire experience.  i ordered a gouda stuffed crab cake portabella sandwich.  heavenly.  after dinner we walked back down the strip to the st. george tavern.  this place was pretty cool.  we always walked by it every time we visited the city, and even mentioned that we wanted to go, but never made it inside.  we finally went and i think we both really enjoyed ourselves.  that night, the king sized bed spoiled me.  i don’t know what i’m going to do tonight when i have to go back to my measly queen matress.

after we checked out of the hotel room this morning, we grabbed a quick coffee and bagel from our favorite little coffee shop on st. george street and headed back to the art store to buy our painting.  i was telling emily that it was really weird for me to be buying art to hang up on the wall of our house.  i say this because i always pictured myself a bachelor, living in a town house, simply decorating the walls with posters of my favorite bands.  i guess i have grown up a little since college.  with art in hand, and packed snugly in the back of my suv, we headed back to our home.  i knew we wouldn’t be able to make it in one fluid trip though.

when we hit orlando, we decided to get off the interstate and spend a couple of hours at ikea.  this place is pretty fascinating, and i think i may have written about it a couple of months ago just before the finger/knife incident.  for under $50, we solved our side table in the living room problem, and we managed to knock out 2 of the 3 light fixtures that we will be replacing at the new house.  all in all i’d say it was a pretty successful trip.

as much as i’d like to say that we stayed out all night last night and lived up our night on the town, i’d be lying if i did.  at 8:40 last night we decided to head back to the hotel so we could catch the office.  lame huh?  ok.  you have to leave me a comment on this post.  do it.  5…4…3….shake my hand…do it…comment…2…1 and a half…comment…do it! (you won’t get that if you don’t watch the office.  i promise i’m not crazy…ok, maybe i am just a little)