Experience # 3 - The Orb

Once we were back at the hotel it was getting late.  The kids all got on the pj's and were coloring and watching some TV.  Verna and I - well, we opened a bottle of Apple Wine and continued our good time.  We decided after awhile it was time for the kids to hit the sack.  Dan stayed with our kids and got them tucked into bed and Verna's kids retreated to their room for the night.  We headed back to the bar and the main part of The Stanley. It was definitely erie out at night walking around and surprisingly quiet.  We were at the steps of the hotel and I of course thought - photo op - so Verna and I sat on the steps and had Cory take our picture.  I always like to have a back up picture taken in case one doesn't turn out so I asked him to take one more shot.  We went into the hotel and  had another one of their delicious, yet expensive drinks and then took a look at our pictures.  Ah the wonderful world of digital cameras.  As Verna was looking at the second picture she started zooming in and then got all excited - there's an Orb, an Orb on your hip in the picture.  It was crazy.  We checked it out all night and she started taking pictures of different areas in the bar to see if she could capture another "orb".  We didn't see anything else, but the pictures are below, both of them and you make the call.  Was it an Orb or was it the flash ... hm?  We will never know!

It was time to hit the hay and we walked backed to our building.  I hardly slept at all that night.  I tossed and I turned and kept thinking that I was hearing things all night.  There is no air conditioning in the hotel so we had our window cracked open.  Every once in awhile a huge gust of wind would come through and rattle our window and it scared the living crap out of me.  I couldn't open my eyes afraid that I would see a ghost standing over me or at the foot of my bed.  I made Dan hold my hand the entire night.  He kept trying to turn to his side and I had a death grip on him.  In the middle of the night I had to pee so bad, but there was no way I was walking around my room and going around a corner or looking in the bathroom mirror to see something staring back at me.  I couldn't have been happier when the sun was up and I could function properly again - whew, it was a long night. The funniest part was when I talked to Verna in the morning she had the same exact experience that I did - no sleep, couldn't get out of bed.  She said that one time in the night she did open her eyes and saw an Orb on Cory's shoulder, but she was too scared to move and grab her camera and figured it would have been gone when she turned back around anyway.

Here are the pictures - you decide!