Thanksgiving Trip - Day 4

[woke up relatively early again - went down to the Big Room and tried to find out where everyone was going - as usual, the crowd had all kinds of different goals for the day (shopping, football, sightseeing, relaxing) - while Mollie, Kathy and Katie Belle were off at the Juliette Lowe (founder of Girl Scouts) home, Andy and I decided to visit Tybee Island (I think I've seen a picture of me at the place, circa 1970...) - we drove east towards the Ocean on US-80 and found a town much like Cape Cod or the Eastern Shore (though it was much warmer here) - backtracked to the Lighthouse (1200L) and took a tour of the grounds (including a walk up the 178 steps to the catwalk) - there was also an interesting museum of the history of the area, too (with the story of the time when each flag flew overhead: Spain, France, Pirate, Great Britain, US, CSA) - after enjoying our time there, we drove north to Fort Pulaski and walked around the grounds of the National Monument - it was an interesting place with an interesting background (big lesson: never give up seemingly useless land to your enemy that he can later use to shoot high tech weapons at you - or you will have to surrender) - we ate lunch at Wendy's on the way back to our hotel - also stopped to pick of additional groceries at Kroger - by this point, Chuck and Tim had already found a great place to watch the college football games - we joined them around 1500L at JJ Bonerz and had a great time there for several hours (until 2000L) - eventually, we headed back to the Big Room and caught up with the family for a few more hours before bed - many of the group planned to leave early on Saturday, so we had to say lots of goodbye's - sad]