Yesterday Kaeli, Dan and I went to Fright Fest at Six Flags; it was super fun, and we didn’t even go on any rides! Because of my stupid ear I can’t even bend down too fast because of the change in pressure – imagine what going upside down would do! That said, all the lines were SUPER LONG anyway because the place was PACKED, so we probably saved ourselves some stress.
Six Flags’ favorite decoration was spiderwebs; it was everywhere! I didn’t see any spiders big enough to spin that web, lol, but it was cute anyway. There were also lots of pumpkins (real and plastic, by the path and in animal cages; I especially liked a plastic pumpkin in the bottom of a huge fishtank!) and dry ice. At the entrance there was a pseudo “graveyard” and Dan found his grave:
He's eating a lolly, not smoking - that's dry ice =P
Usually there’s a big dolphin fountain in the middle of the park (that I have taken dozens of pictures by over the years), but at Halloween it was replaced with impaled skeletons and ‘blood’. Family friendly!
Cute Halloween shirts!
You can see the fountain better here...
When we got there it was still day, meaning that the spooky stuff was hiding – the day is kid-friendly while the night is scarier. We looked at all the animals that weren’t already in bed, drank lots of Diet Coke (we have a season-long souvenir cup that makes refills super cheap) and ate yummy burritos, went to the Shouka show, and were informed by a budding zoologist that all animals have eyelashes, not just the girls. (lol, I couldn’t get too annoyed at the kid because I know I was just as know-it-all-y when I was little!) (For the record, Dan and I have a running joke that you tell boy animals/objects from girl animals/objects by their hairbow or eyelashes or lack thereof. Yes, we’re dumb…)
We also ate Pop Rocks. Halloween is for candy, right?
It was getting dark, so we decided to get some SUPER NYUMMY (and expensive!) funnel cake and head to the sea lion show. Dan kept asking if we’d see animals in costume (“will the orca wear a costume?” “do the butterflies dress up in TINY TINY costumes?”) and at the sea lion show we actually did! One of the sea lions had a skeleton ‘painted’ on its fur, which was super adorable. =) The sea lion trainers were dressed up in various costumes too (Rainbow Brite, zombie cheerleader, Austin Powers?) and though it didn’t really have anything to do with the show it was still cute.
We also went to the dolphin show, which I think was the highlight of the evening for everyone – it was a Disco Dolphin show! They had a disco ball and everything, not to mention the trainers were dressed ridiculously 70’s. =) One trainer was thrown into the air by dolphins several times and it was pretty amazing; the trainers don’t seem to get in the water with the animals very much at 6 Flags so it was especially exciting.
After the dolphins we went to get in a huge line to buy tickets for the ‘mazes’ (which for the record weren’t mazes at all; more like haunted houses), but luckily an employee came to us to sell wristbands so we got out of line… and then back IN line for the attractions themselves. Gotta love theme parks. The first haunted house was Bayou Hazard; according to the 6 Flags website “a local is running an illegal packing plant as you take a tour of this cannibalistic facility”… but you’d never know that from the (non)maze itself, because it was so full of dry ice ’smoke’ and strobe lights you couldn’t see anything. I guess it was scary in a jumpy way because you couldn’t see the scary actors coming through the fog, but you couldn’t see ANYTHING, so it could have just been an empty building and it would have been just as scary. (Actually, there was one room – supposedly the meat-packing room I guess? – where you had to go through ‘blood-stained’ plastic to get inside and that was kinda creepy, but that was it.)
The other (non)maze, Holiday House of Horrors, was a lot better on the scary front. Each room represented a different holiday portrayed in a totally screwed up way, and you could actually see the decorations so that was fun. You also knew there was going to be someone jumping out and scaring you in every room, but you didn’t know what they’d be dressed as (except that it would be holiday-themed; I think the demented Easter bunny was the freakiest, but the leprechaun was scary too) or where they’d be. Most of the decorations had a fence around them and the scary character would be in there, but in the very last room – the birthday room – the clown was standing in the middle of the path! We all just stopped and were like “nope, not going through” lol. (We did make it through eventually. But seriously, you let the clown out unleashed? That’s just mean!) So that haunted house was a lot better than the first, both because you could see enough to be scared and because having your childhood effed with is always a bit frightening.
Kaeli spent the night at our apartment but had to go back to PUC this afternoon for a study session. But, before she left we made delicious (and adorable) Halloween cupcakes! Today I have a ton of stuff I need to do after my Week of Sick: clean house, do homework… but I also want to get pumpkins to carve (later) or maybe even paint or decorate. We have tiny pumpkins decorating our house but no big ones outside, and I desperately need to remedy that – there’s less than a week until Halloween, and I must milk every holiday for all it’s worth! =)
