From A to Zoë

post #200... what a fun ride this has been. ellen and greg just happened to come by the house today, took me and zoë out to lunch, and then whisked us away to their house. which is a total blessing, because that means i can finally post pictures of the munchkin. spencer is on his way home from washington d.c. where he was testing for a federal job. hopefully he'll be through richmond before rush hour...
thanks for sticking out this bumpy ride of the last 19 months... hard to believe it's been that long, and yet it feels like it's flown by. i've been telling spencer we need another one, because zoë's been so much fun. of course, we're going to get health insurance first, so no worrying, okay?

and now, on to the pictures

she loves getting pulled around in this laundry basket.

keeeyyyysss!!

like a cat insisting on fitting in something way too small, she was determined to sit in these fairly small wire baskets.

basket

hello? uh huh... okay! bye. - literal transcript of her conversation. seriously.

toybox

making a royal mess with the toys

hahaha... silly girl

what? i'm supposed to keep my mouth shut?

spencer at the outset of the trip to savannah with brent and michelle. this was our first vacation in years, and you'll notice zoë's absence. she had a wild weekend at grandma and grandpa's, and didn't seem to miss us a bit.

gates

a tree grown round a fence

the childhood home of flannery o'connor

i love flannery o'connor

gates

savannah skyline

black virgin mary

spencer and brent

too bad i wasn't paying more attention in american history...

cool gate

wrought iron fencing around st. john

wasn't the father in gone with the wind named gerald o'hara?

st. patrick statue at st. john the baptist catholic church

interior dome of st. john

Jesus ascending

the Father recieving Jesus

one of my favorite stained glass pieces

michelle's favorite stained glass bit

interior of st. john

st. john in daylight

i seriously loved this fountain

fountain again

we ate at a genuine pirate pub... stevenson apparently penned "treasure island" near here

vertigo inducing stairs round 1

vertigo inducing stairs round 2, on the way to the river front... lots of smelly tourists, in a very small space. did i mention it was very hot and humid?

walking the uneven brick streets

the long walk back from the river front

entrance to savannah's most famous cemetary

the tombstone of a pirate... notice the skull and crossbones?

spencer and i in a local coffee shop

st. john the baptist

a bridge in the savannah area that was once a boundary of land owned by spencer's family... they burned it anticipating sherman's march to the sea... sherman built a pontoon bridge instead. really cool bit of family history.