|
Post by catherine on Nov 11, 2013 18:37:47 GMT -5
The Double Tree is decorated a lot better than the Marriott, it's in a better location and the restaurant is better.
|
|
|
Post by catherine on Nov 11, 2013 18:29:56 GMT -5
I always doubted that Skakel killed Martha Moxley because bashing someone's head in is a low class murder. The information about her being killed by those thugs came out when the trial was going on, but the defense lawyers didn't pay any attention to it for some reason. If they had, maybe he wouldn't have been convicted.
|
|
|
Post by catherine on Nov 6, 2013 0:09:23 GMT -5
Natalie: My favorite restaurants in St. Augustine were the Raintree, which Maddie mentioned, and the Santa Maria, which is built over the water where you can throw food out the windows and feed the catfish. We ate at the Raintree twice, the night before Halloween and then we went back the Friday after Halloween because that was "prime rib night." The restaurant at the Casa Monica where Julia and Maddie stayed is called Cordova 95 and it's decent, but nothing special and there didn't seem to be a dress code and for a hotel like that, you would expect a dress code.
We were at Jekyll Island, which is a hundred miles south of Savannah, and I haven't been to Savannah in several years. If you go to Jekyll Island, all three of the restaurants at the Jekyll Island Club are good. On St. Simons, the Bonefish grill is okay, but stay away from the 5-star Cloister because the food is mediocre. If you like oysters on the half-shell, there's a restaurant called Latitude 31 on St. Simons where you can sit at the bar and they shuck oysters for you. We had a lunch of beer and oysters there one day.
|
|
|
Post by catherine on Nov 5, 2013 23:43:32 GMT -5
Maddie didn't mention the ghostbusters in her report. On the weekend before Halloween when we were at the Jekyll Island Club, they had a ghost hunt weekend and that Friday, a group of ghostbusters in black t-shirts and baseball caps arrived with all their silly equipment. We were in the Grand Dining Room, the one that Lee posted a photo of above, where men are required to wear jackets and all the women were in long skirts, like we were, or cocktail dresses. We heard people laughing and talking loudly and there at the entrance were the ghostbusters in jeans, black t-shirts with some kind of silly ghost insignia and sneakers! I just had to know what was being said, so I pretended to go to the ladies room and lingered long enough to hear the maître d' tell them that they would be more than welcome at the Crane Courtyard or the Café Solterra, the other two restaurants at the hotel. I gave them a snooty look and so did others passing by. What the hell is wrong with these people? Did they really think they would be admitted to the Grand Dining Room dressed like frigging field hands?
|
|
|
Post by catherine on Sept 24, 2013 4:58:45 GMT -5
I just joined and I like this new format much better than the Yahell format. Not getting email doesn't bother me at all. It's a lot easier to go to the site than have to contend with dozens of emails every day. I love the black and orange color scheme -- very SPOOKY!
|
|