Fright Fest

For most people Halloween is a holiday where you either A: have children and dress them up in silly costumes and take them around your neighborhood to get candy from your neighbors, or B: dress up in costumes that either make you look like you belong in a haunted house or an adult magazine, go to parties just to get drunk and act like a teenager. Well since the age of twelve I have been too old for option A and now that I am in my later twenties it seems like I am too old for option B as well. I don't really care to have the out of control feeling of too much alcohol and I do not like to act like most do on this holiday. So what's a girl to do?

When our friends Mr & Mrs. B asked us if we wanted to go to the local theme parks Halloween event, I was slightly less than thrilled. Reason being I hate Halloween and roller coasters. I am terrified of heights and do not like to lose my stomach so the idea of falling from many many feet in the air is not my idea of a good time. But since the hubbs loves that sort of thing we decided that it would be good to go. Mrs. B doesn't really care for roller coasters either so at least I would have someone to talk to. We met up with Mr. and Mrs. R and once the entire group got situated and we ate we started making our way around the park. Like most theme parks, they had employees dressed up with fake blood and prosthetics trying to scare people. Of course they were doing a good job with some of the teenagers who would scream at the top of their lungs and run away, which of course made the characters follow just to get a rise out of them. But when they would come up to use, we would just say things like "Hey how are ya?" or "What's up?" Not exactly the reaction they were looking for. We poked around in a couple of mazes, which were fun. I am the type that expects something to jump out of every corner so I didn't really get scared, except for the one time I let my guard down. I was staring at this "statue" thinking, ok that's fake. Then I turned away to keep walking, of course the hubbs who was right next to me decided to walk ahead a little. When he did the statue jumped at me and made me scream so loud. It was funny. I went on a couple of baby rides, and everyone else went on a couple of big rides including the wooden coaster that was running backwards. Although we were standing by the funnel cake stand forever and I wanted one desperately, I never got one. I guess that's a good thing though, can't ruin the diet on one pastry. Even though I had been skeptical of the whole evening I did have fun. I am glad that we at least did something in relation to Halloween this year.