While we were in Savannah driving around aimlessly finding things to do, we came across the Wormsloe Historic Site. It was $5 a person and so Devin, me, Dane, Eric, and Jeremy decided to soak up some history. We drove through an archway of live oaks covered in Spanish moss to get to the mini museum where we watched a short (low budget) production about the first settlers. The museum consisted of one room in which different artifacts dug up from the were displayed. It turns out that the Wormsloe Plantation was home to Noble Jones, a settler of the first Georgia colony. Noble Jones used tabby, a mixture of limestone, sand, and shells, to build fortifications at Wormsloe in 1740 for the defense of Savannah. In 1793, Noble Jones constructed new homes out of the tabby mixture and parts of the ruins are still standing today! They are the oldest structures in Georgia.
After the one roomed museum, we went on a mile nature walk in which we were able to see the ruins and the burial site for Noble Jones. Along the trail there were also homes built recently to show visitors what the homes looked like back then. The boys had fun pretending to sell a security system to the settlers and trying to upgrade them glass breaks for their two glass-less windows. They thoroughly investigated the one room home to find the perfect location for the panel...they're goofs!
Unfortunately, being the only girl also meant being subject to boy-entertainment including torturing the BIGGEST, UGLIEST, HAIRIEST and MOST COLORFUL spider I have EVER seen in the wild. They spent a good 15 minutes oogliing over it at a distance until one of the boys decided to ruin it's hard spun nest and capture it on a stick. It was pretty funny though because I have never seen a guy afraid of a spider until that day. Haha they were freaking out! Now they know how I feel every time I see ANY spider! I definately made sure to keep a safe distance (unless I was snapping a picture). Who knows what kind of horrible pain a spider like that could inflict! Sorry some of them are a little blurry! I was a little too concerned with not dying to make sure they weren't fuzzy!
I can't leave out the hermit crabs! While we were walking, the boys were once again sidetracked by hundreds of hermit crabs. I guess I can't blame them for that one though, because they were SO cool! There was a tree growing sideways over a sandy area covered in hundreds upon hundreds of holes in which little crabs were poking their heads in and out of. They all had one huge claw and one tiny claw and enjoyed walking sideways. I wasn't able to get good pictures because the crabs totally blend in to the sand. After oogling over these creatures, the boys once again began torturing these creatures. (Mothers of little boys-you think they grow up fast, but the truth is that they never do!) After at least another 15 minute detour, I knew we had to keep going. The only way to tear them away from their endeavors was to continue walking and saying come on, the park closed a half hour ago! I seriously felt like a sheep herder. Our 1 mile walk literally turned into an hour and a half adventure and I can guarantee that if you ask any of those boys what their favorite part was, they wouldn't list the tabby ruins or the ancient live oaks, but the deadly looking spiders and the hermit crabs!
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