Savannah Ship Day

When you see a post on Facebook that says... "In recognition of the SS Savannah’s historic trans-Atlantic crossing in 1819, and the establishment of National Maritime Day by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum will offer Free Admission on Friday, May 22, 2015." you grab your home schoolers, and their buddy, and you go!

What a cool place!

 

The museum is located in the former William Scarbrough House. I have walked past this house numerous times and never realized what was hidden inside.

Full of beautiful architecture and many, many ships...old ships....new ships...military ships...coast guard ships...wheels off ships...wooden figureheads (which were super cool!)...

I wish I would of had more time to read about each of the ships, but I had 3 boys to keep up with...
which means I had a small amount of THIS during our museum visit...

So, this is NOT a post that will share all of the fascinating things that we learned that day.
We did NOT stay very long.
Okay, I will quickly share two things that I WAS able to speed read. One, I thought the "Rolling Pins" were interesting...

 

And two, I took a photo of the ceramic kitty for a friend and THEN I read the significance. Ha!

 

Anyhooooo, we were off to River Street for lunch, hoping to see a Moran tugboat cruise by. No work so no cruise by, but we did get an invite to visit! Over the bridge we went!!

The Engine Room

"Driving" the Tug

My, what big props you have...

Always a good day when we can visit Dad at work!