The next day was our first and only full day in Savannah and we filled it to the brim! We started the day with a visit to the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters for a dose of history. The website explains the tour like this “visitors explore the complicated relationships between the most and least powerful people in the city of Savannah in the early 19th century.” The home was beautiful, but it was definitely quite the juxtaposition seeing the beauty and grandeur of the white homeowners vs the quarters of the enslaved people (many of whom were children).

The girls took away a few fun facts, like the Marquis De Lafayette stayed there on a visit to the United States and it was the first home in America with running water!

The home is part of the Telfair Museum, so included in our admission were the other museums owned by Telfair. the girls love art, so we headed to the Jepson Center next. The girls had so much fun exploring this museum!

Jepson Center is definitely a must-do for families visiting Savannah! After the girls were done exploring, we walked to Telfair Academy. Once a mansion, it’s now a museum and home to the famous Bird Girl Statue.

After a morning filled with art, the girls wanted to head toward SCAD and recreate a picture we took from the last time we were there at the fountain in Forsyth Park. We were only there for a night about 7 years ago, but the girls played forever in Forsyth Park. Molly had no memories, but the big girls did!

Then it was time for lunch. We started heading back to our hotel. Since it had many different restaurants, we figured we’d grab lunch from one of them. But Maddy spotted a cute brewery (she knows daddy loves a good brewery!) so we decided to stop. So glad we did – the food was great, and it was a lovely spot for lunch!

The girls opted to hang in the hotel room for a bit so they’d be rested for dinner. Patrick and I decided to grab a drink at one of the spots on the river. Then, we headed to the Pirate House for dinner. This was one I read a lot about and lots of people recommended it to us, so we felt like we needed to check it out. It was cute, but I would say overpriced for the quality of food. But, the girls had fun and we can check it off and try something different next time.

It was a nice walk back to our hotel, and the big girls loved telling spooky stories and recounting things they heard on their ghost tour. Molly held my hand tightly the entire walk back 🙂