The Brownie's come to Bardstown. Part Deux.

After our trip to Jim Beam we headed home to relax and have dinner.  We decided just to have some pizza before we headed next door to The Chapeze House and our ghost tour! The kids were also happy we chose to come home for dinner.

T.C. chooses the more aggressive path to get food.

Bubba goes for his usual cute, "how can you refuse this face" method.

For our tour it was just the three of us attending...that is other than all the spirits present. We sat down to Colonel Mike and his wife Margaret Sue telling us about the history of the Chapeze house and the ghosts they have been sharing the house with since they bought it.  We learned Margaret Sue is a talker and Colonel Mike is a napper.  Both really nice and interesting people though. They have also been very nice since I got here. Colonel Mike is also quite taken with the Bubba. 

I tell you that little fart has quite the fan club.  A lawyer who works across the street actually ran over to talk to us and meet Bubba this afternoon when we were out for our walk.  Turns out he had bassets when his kids were little.  His daughter loved them so much that she just got another one once she graduated College.  Hers is named Petunia. (love it) Petunia is now a therapy dog who works with autistic kids!  I could tell this lawyer really wanted to get down and pet Bubba, but we know our little guy wasn't having any of it.  Actually hid behind my legs. 

Back to our ghost tour....we enjoyed learning about the house and the spirits that came to be.  After the stories, Margaret Sue took us to the local grave site to see if we could get pictures of "Orbs". Those are tell tale signs of spirits lingering about.  Joanne and I took lots of pictures but to no avail.  No orbs are visible.  Ian says we have to print them in order to see the orbs.  Margaret Sue actually had pictures from a wedding they had at the house that showed tons of orbs. They look like water drops on your film!  I will most likely be back to the grave site to take more pictures. I will have pictures of orbs before I leave this place!

That is Margaret Sue in the middle.

Good looking family!...hey why is Joanne so tall?

Door to the old jail.  Did she say it was made out of iron...?

We are looking for orbs here...this was the hanging tree.

After the tour to the grave site we headed back to the Chapeze House for a Mint Julep. It was good, but Ian was right you couldn't drink a lot of them.  They looked pretty good too.

Ian is reading a book written by Colonel Mike.  "Hospitality-Kentucky Style".  It is a mix of history, bourbon tales and recipes.  My very awesome sister-in-law bought me a copy and had Colonel Mike sign it.  It is great to have something with a little history of Kentucky to take with me.