Girls Day Out

Every year around my birthday, Carleen, Mom and I have a day out at Greer to celebrate. It's a fun day, we eat out and go shopping in the cute little stores in Greer. Today was the only day our schedules would permit us to go this week, so we headed out. It was a fun day, we checked out a nearby campground, then went to the Amberian Peaks, where we were planning to eat and check out the ghost story I'd seen Ernie Hudson tell on Celebrity Ghost Stories on the Bio channel. Here's the Amberian and it looks nothing like the the haunted hotel they showed on TV!

We found disaster had struck, they had some water damage to the Lodge over the winter and it was closed for repairs. The owner was outside and we had a good visit with him, we asked him about the resident ghost, Zeke. The story the owner told is different from the one Ernie told, Ernie said Zeke killed his bride in the hotel on their wedding night, the hotel owner said Zeke is the son of the former owners and he was killed in a car wreck and is a friendly ghost and now that his parents are gone, they also haunt the place. He said if anyone sits on a counter, a glass will break somewhere in the hotel. The owners wife didn't like anyone sitting on counters and that's her way of showing her displeasure. He also said the son liked to wear plaid shirts and several people have seen a ghost in a plaid shirt wandering around. I like the friendly ghost story better! I don't suppose there could be two haunted hotels in Greer, both with a ghost named Zeke, one good and one bad, could there???

I saw online that you can schedule a Murder Mystery Weekend or dinner for groups at the Amberian. Sounds like fun, the owner said they give everyone a part to play and I guess the group tries to solve the crime. What fun!

We found that Tuesday isn't a good day to visit Greer, most of the restaurants are closed, we usually eat at the Rendezvous, but it was closed too. We'd seen this cute little cafe on wheels called the Frosty Bottom on our way to the Amberian and the name tickled us so we decided to eat there. We got sandwiches and they were so good! I got one called the Treehugger, a veggie one and it was delicious! Mom and Carleen had one called the Barnyard. Carleen got hers on a croissant, she didn't want the rye bread. I usually don't like rye, but this was good! I need to take John to try it out!

At Christmas this past year, Greer had something they called a North Pole Experience. This was the bus used, I think it is kind of based on the movie Polar Express. It sounded like fun, but was expensive, I think it was around $400 a person for the bus and an overnight.

After lunch we checked out our favorite shops, braving a rainstorm to run from the car to the shops, went back to the Frosty Bottom, got milkshakes and headed for home. As we were driving home we all wondered why we don't do this more often. We should!