Day Trip...of sorts

This week I was in Savannah for 2 days for a meeting that I was hosting as part of work. There were 4 other people from my office attending the meeting, which was on community based social marketing - super cool for anyone in the world of environmental education by they way. Problem was, an out of state travel request may as well be a request for a million dollars, because even though Savannah is closer than a number of locations in South Carolina, in the world of state governments it is all about process and procedure, and out of state travel is it's own process and procedure. Thankfully, there is a DNR facility about 45 minutes from Savannah, on the South Carolina side of the line, so we had a pretty easy way to deal with the denied travel request. And thus we had two day trips to Savannah :) Wednesday morning we drove down nice and early (a sweet 4:30 wake-up) and headed to the meeting. Afterwards since we were staying at a dorm-esk type thing we needed to find ourselves some dinner and so took a nice walk downtown to get moving after sitting inside all day, had some pizza, and then found our way to the...
...Savannah Candy Kitchen! Where we bought bags full of taffy...and ate disgusting amounts of taffy the next day (fyi - don't buy bags full of taffy if you don't want to eat bags full of taffy).

The place we stayed, though 45 minutes out of the way, was beautiful! It really is nice that the DNR mariculture center has this house full of rooms where interns stay during the summer. And it's hard to beat waking up the next morning, and reading devotions looking out on this...
We headed back down towards Savannah, however, a much later start time this time! One problem - we forgot the fact that we weren't staying in the city, and didn't plan in time to stop for breakfast. Instead we found ourselves driving through the city looking for some kind of fast breakfast items (there is literally nothing on the drive from the mariculture center to Savannah). One of my favorite quotes of the two days 'you know you're a state employee when you're in a car full of people and no one has an iPhone'. Eventually we found a little diner that was very sweet to make us egg biscuits and OJ to go.

It was a great conference - and super easy on the planning side since I'm used to being the only host, and we had 3 this time! Afterwards we headed back to Charleston - our 2 day trip to Savannah complete :)