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Want to do something different with your Girl Scout Troop while in Savannah? Bring them to historic Bryson Hall to meet “Juliet Gordon Low” and have her show them the etiquette of tea and serving it. In Juliet’s day, Savannahians had tea just about every afternoon and there was an art to it. The right cups, the right tea, the right way to serve it, the right way to drink it–these were important if you were to be accepted in local society. Let Tales of the South arrange a tea for your group  which will include the tea and service, tea “sandwiches” for the children and others for the adults, a Juliet Gordon Low character, an interactive discussion about tea and the historic venue.

The Tea can be combined with the Savannah Safari Tour, which is an interactive walk through Savannah. The tour takes about 1 1/2 hours and the Scouts look for historic markers, fill in their souvenir book, and learn about history, Juliet Gordon Low’s town, and what the animal statues represent. This is a good way to combine history and the beauty of Savannah in a fun, interactive way for the students.

For these activities call Tales of the South at 912.660.3555.

Bringing a Girl Scout troop to the area? Let me make some suggestions on an itinerary. These can be combined, subtracted from or added to depending on your needs.

First, I suggest you stay at the beach. Any scout would LOVE the beach, and you can rent a house with a kitchen, living room, TV and so forth. The kitchen can save you money on meals as you can cook your own. Maybe have the girls earn a badge by cooking in the kitchen. Why eat pizza at the foot of the bed!!!! Come to the beach and rent a house. Call Tybee Vacation Rentals at 877.214.7353.

Day 1 - arrive and check in – probably go down to beach as girls will want to see it. We have an Arby’s on the island where you can eat. Not sure about your budget but we have some fun places to eat, as well. I will list those at the end of this blog.

Day 2 -  Continue Reading »

Breakfast is not always easy to find on Tybee. The Breakfast Club is terrific, but sometimes the line is too long; and we have a couple of other places that are OK. Now we have Charly’s and it is wonderful.

Charly’s is located next to the Post Office and after Friday, they’ll have the wonderful, intimate inner dining room AND a beautiful outdoor deck. They have lots of colorful art and their windows sport artsy figures in lots of colors.

I had the crabmeat omelet and it was fabulous. My friend was on a diet and asked for the egg-white omelet–not on the menu but Grayson fixed it anyway. They had two specials: fish on potatoes and scrambled eggs with fried potatoes and sausage–both for around $6-7. The prices are very reasonable, food plentiful and very good.

They are open everyday except Wed. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday they are open for breakfast from 7:30 am to 10:00 am and on weekends they extend the time to 11:00 am, after which lunch begins.

Lunch and dinner are also reasonably priced and they have various baskets; salads, lobster bisque, all kinds of seafood, steaks, chicken and two specialties: grilled lamb lollipops and roasted half duck. Every Friday their special is All You Can  Eat Crab Legs for $21.95-$25.95. They offer three desserts: Tiramisu, Key Lime Pie and Creme Brulee.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner–try Charly’s. You won’t be sorry.

Tybee Island’s Beach Bum parade will take place on Friday, May 20, 2011. In case you haven’t heard of it, the Parade is one big water fight–people on the floats devise contraptions to squirt those standing on the sidelines, and the sideline people fight back with their own contraptions. It is one big hoot!

The parade begins at the North Beach, commences down Meddin to Van Horne, out the East Ft. Screven gate, on down Butler and turning on Tybrisa. But don’t think you’ll get by with being just a spectator–YOU WILL GET WET, so you might as well get your gun and get ready to have fun!

Parade begins at 6:00 pm. A few rules: no squirting the Police (we’re not kidding here); no running out to the floats–roads will be slippery from all the water and if you fall under the wheels it could be bad; there’s no rule about this but we hope you don’t use ice water and definitely NO ICE CUBES. We want this to be a fun water fight, not a cold, rude one.  Watch your drinking. Again, we don’t want any people hurt–alcohol should be used with caution. Take care of the kids; they’ll be tempted to run out, not realizing they could get run over–WATCH YOUR CHILDREN.

Help Tybee make this a safe and fun parade. The least bit of problems could cause it to be cancelled. Keep our parade safe.

The Tybee Island Mega Carnival has been extended another week. Because of the huge success of the carnival, the City decided to add on another week from May 10th – May 15th. For $20 one can get a wristband and ride the rides with no limit!! A bargain.

The event takes place at the Ocean Plaza Parking Lot. The Tybee Arts Association will sponsor this event which will feature a safe, family friendly carnival with live entertainment, special guest performers, carnival rides, and games for children. They’ll be a ferris wheel, Himalaya, Super Slide, Spin Out, Scrambler and kiddie rides. Children can also enjoy pony rides and see the smallest cow in the world. Carnival food will be available and admission is $1 per person per day.  Hours are:

5/10 – 5-9 pm
5/11 – 5-9 pm
5/12 – 5-9 pm
5/13 – 4-9 pm
5/14 – 10 am – 9 pm
5/15 – 10 am – 9 pm

Come out for some old fashioned family fun. For information on the carnival go to www.tybeeartsassociation.com.