Ghost Town is back

We got up especially early and were walking by 7:30. We had to get home in time for Evelyn to get dressed for the LWML Bible study at 10. While she got ready I put the oil I had drained from the Saturn into the hatch so I could take it for recycling. I dropped her at the church and recycled it. I went to Wal-Mart to get my medicine and then went to talk to the new manager about my coming back to work. She was gone, but I learned that I would be making drinks instead of taking money at the drive through window. I think I can learn that but want to know what she will pay me. I went to the hotel to deal with e-mail. I returned, picked up Evelyn, and came home. I made myself a wrap because she had eaten at the Bible study. Women can’t seem to get together without having a meal together. We rested and then Evelyn went to get some hanging plants for our deck. We visited our neighbors and talked about our plants. We discovered we have a great crop of weeds. We came home and ate a delicious meal of tilapia. We took a walk around our community, and then I watched “National Treasure”, a movie I had recorded before we left on the cruise.

Again up early to walk. We readied ourselves and met Shirley at 10:30 for our trip to Ghost Town in the Sky. The chair lift was not working so we had to be transported up “the steepest road in Western North Carolina” by bus. The road is not only steep but filled with hair pin turns. Once our bus couldn’t make one and had to back up. There were few guard rails and the drops were shear. We were so happy to arrive safely at the top that we applauded and cheered. One woman even hugged the driver. We decided we would ride down in one of the vans that was also transporting. We found that only part of the park was finished. None of the rides were operating and there were only two restaurants open. One was so smokey that we couldn’t stand to eat in there. There were several shops open and there were gunfights in the streets every hour and a half. There were also two saloons that featured singing and bands. We stayed around 4 hours and took a van to the bottom. It was still early so we followed Shirley to their cabin for drinks and a slide show of the pictures I had taken at the park. We came home and had BLT sandwiches for dinner. We took a walk around our loop and up the mountain a short way to inspect the ditching being done by the water commission. We came back and watched another movie “Blue Skies” that I had recorded last February. It was a musical comedy and was very good. Bing, Fred Astair, and Joan Caufield