We picked Ashley up last Friday night at the Greenville/Spartanburg airport and spent the weekend in Greenville. It was a lot of fun. She ended up bringing Bogart (her cat) with her and didn't get charged for him. He was in his carrier and she draped her coat over it, got on the airport and slid it under the seat. Bogart is a mute cat so he didn't make any noise. Sammie was not excited to see Bogart when we got home Sunday night though! Hopefully, they will start getting along soon.
We stayed at the Hyatt in downtown Greenville and spent Saturday just wandering around downtown and shopping. I got a couple of Christmas presents bought so that was a good thing. A lot of the trees were showing off their beautiful colors.
While we were there, we went on a mouse hunt! For his senior project at Christ Church Episcopal School in 2000, Jim Ryan proposed the idea of installing a family of nine unique mice sculptures in surprising places along Greenville's Main Street from the Hyatt to the Westin Poinsett Hotel. His original idea spun from the book, Goodnight Moon, which he and his mom read every night when he was small. There are nine mice pictured in that story. Ryan made his way through the red tape involved in any city project and then raised the money, with the assistance of donors and the mayor, to complete his project. Greenville sculptor, Zan Wells, actually created the mice. She and Ryan became a team, and Wells sculpted nine individual bronze mice, each one with his own look, character, and special place on Main Street. Ryan and Wells placed the mice in their permanent places, thus creating Greenville's fanciful downtown scavenger hunt.
