Trip to Savannah

Let me first say, I am so thrilled to have been asked to chaperone my daughter's trip to Savannah Georgia for three reasons.

1. I love spending time with my daughter!
2. They are the most amazing group of kids and musicians!
3. I adore Savannah!

The kids were invited to play at the Georgia Music Educators Conference. This is a huge accomplishment as only two high schools and three middle schools in the entire state are invited to go.

Wednesday night Allison and I packed up. I packed a cooler full of fresh fruit and snacks. We were ready to go!

We started off Thursday morning. You do not have to ask this group to help out because they just do.
We are loaded up and we head out.

Our bus driver Ike was awesome. He started us off with a joke, something about foot, foot and foot. I missed it but the kids laughed! The kids were amazing. They watched movies, visited and read books; there were even girls knitting. I spent my time visiting with one of my fellow chaperones Melissa. Our kids have gone to school together since the third grade.


We arrived in Savannah and headed to lunch. Oh no, shear panic. What is for lunch! On a prearranged trip you really have no control... So, what is a clean eating girl to do? Just make the best of it and get back on track when the trip is over. We ate at a restaurant named Ryan's. It was great! A huge salad bar, baked sweet potato and baked chicken. I was good to go.

We headed to the hotel, so the kids could stretch their legs a minute and get their concert dress ready to go. I had my very own room. Wow! We then headed over to the convention center Our driver Ike had another joke ready for us."Hey Kids, I'll be your tour guide today. Let's start off with those green things to our left, those are trees." We let the kids roam around a bit before sitting down to watch Walton High School perform.

Sound check. This was fun. The kids had a great time, they were relaxed and just played for fun.



We headed outside for a snack break, GASP, my healthy clean snacks were on the bus and dinner was at 9:45 pm! Pringles here I come. What do ya do? You go with it. The kids had a fun time giving each other shout outs (compliments) Before heading in to finish getting into their concert dress.

The kids played at 8:30 and it was amazing! Mr. Palmer the director, chose to do something really cool with the program: He brought the Allatoona fiddlers as pre-concert entertainment. He also showcased each section of his orchestra by having them perform upfront with rest of the orchestra behind them. We had two guest conductors from our feeder middle school programs and a guest artist who with the kids brought the house down.

We got the kids back to the hotel and had a fun pizza party for them. Then it was off to bed (well, not really for the kids I am sure). They did however stay in their rooms.

Friday morning we had an 8:00 am wake up call, breakfast at the hotel (I enjoyed this as I visited with the kids) and loaded the buses by 9:45.

We headed back over to the convention center and let the group wander around the expo a bit. Then we headed to the ferry, rode over for some shopping on River Street and a bit of a walking tour of Savannah. Mr. Palmer stopped at the coolest toy store. There were lot's of vintage toys. The kids had a blast. With 56 kids buying things we probably made the shop owners day!

Next we headed over to The Pirate House for lunch, southern buffet style. This was a really fun stop. They had a pirate who walked around a talked to us about the pirates of Savannah.

Time to head for home. I will say once again that this was such a fun filled trip. I enjoyed spending a bit of time with my daughter and visiting with her really cool friends!