The Magic Lamp for Halloween

So we took the time out today to

decorate the entrance to our magic lamp.

We put up lights, skeleton, and spider webs.

We used 2 of the larger branches that came down in the storm

as our "trees"!

This is what it looks like during the day!

And while I was watching Once Upon A Time the BF went over

and turned the lights on!!!

Halloween Movie List

Okay so yes it's a long list BUT Bunny and I usually curl up Saturday mornings and enjoy some movie magic - I'm eager to see how many we get to this year.

1. Hocus Pocus
2. The Addams Family
3. The Addams Family Values
4. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
5. The Nightmare Before Christmas
6. Practical Magic
7. Rocky Horror Picture Show
8. Sleepy Hollow (1999 version)
9. Trick R Treat
10. Resident Evil
11. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
12. Resident Evil: Extinction
13. Resident Evil: Afterlife
14. Resident Evil: Retribution
15. Night of the Living Dead (1968 version)
16. Beetlejuice
17. Scream
18. Bell Book & Candle
19. It
20. Corpse Bride
21. The Haunted Mansion
22. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
23. Halloweentown
24. Ghostbusters
25. Sweeney Todd
26. The Houses October Built
27. Hotel Transylvania
28. Devil
29. Deadset 
30. Labyrinth
31. The Black Cauldron
32. The Witches
33. Zombieland
34. Jeff Dunham Minding the Monsters
35. Transylvania 6-500

And I Hellevator Season 1 - OMG that was soooo much fun!

Our Halloween Altar

I'm so very berry happy with the way our holiday altar turned out.

Darkside Haunted Estates

Okay people so look lively - well as lively as a haunted house can look. 

Welcome to DarkSide Haunted Estates

is one of the new ones we tried this year and OMG it was truly spectacular. 

First off - they had roaming characters at the front of the area which always makes the

experience more thrilling for me. For starters there was

One of boyfriends favorite guys - Jason.

And let me start off by saying OMG! He started the experience from the time

we pulled into the parking lot. He chased our car into the parking lot and then

tried to chase me around.

This particular picture was snapped right before he scared some poor girl in

the portapotty. She flew out the door and back to her car. Last time I saw

her it was tail lights out the parking lot. She left her friends behind.

And last I heard was refusing to come back for them.

I honestly thought this guy was a statue until I saw his hands twitching!

And that is the end of my pictures for this experience, but let me tell you about the rest of our night.

On site is a food truck - so you can get something to eat or drink while you wait.

And wait we did. (only downside to our experience really)

We waited in line for close to 3 hours to go on their newest attraction - Zombie Paintball!

But once we got in the wagon we had the time of our life!!

You are riding in a wagon pulled by a tractor (think hayride without the hay).

They stop once they get into the woods & you switch to the gunning seats

and away you go. There are various "stations" in which you shoot the zombies

(FYI the zombies are volunteers from the local JROTC)

The whole trip takes about 15-20 minutes and is truly a fun way to blow off some steam.

(This is a stock photo because I do not take photos while on the trail)

Because of the long delay at the Zombie Paintball - the staff was nice enough to keep

the haunted trail open for us.

I had an amazing time wandering the trail with the BF and interacting with the

actors all over the place. And I was truly astounded when I found out

that almost all of the actors are kids. 

For a kid powered house - this is truly AMAZING!!!! 

Much better than last night's debacle of a haunt.

Cost per person: $16 + depending on what packages you get/we did the combo for $30

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 ghosts (would have been 4.5 but the wait time for the hayride was horrendous)

2012 Haunted House Round 1

Okay so last year, BF & I did a haunted house or trail every weekend in October and since we had so much fun we decided to do it again. Maybe next year, we'll see if we can't get involved in an acutal ghost hunt. LOL. So this year, since we were down at the beach already, we decided to check out this one:

Now I for one must say that I was a bit leary when we got here, I mean - it's a transformed store front in a strip mall. Can you say cheesy? But I was very impressed with the interiors. They have 5 attractions & a discount for the combo pass. For $25 you get to see:

■Haunted Factory Tour - My favorite part about this attraction, was watching everyone freak out over the gas masked dummy being a real person - it was freaking hilarous.  Evil millionaire built his factory on the backs of hardworking people, causing death & destruction. So some of the factory workers took matters into their own hands & sealed all the doors (leaving a ton of their fellow workers inside) and set fire to the place. Not much affected me in this part (see note down below about keeping your fingers to yourself) except for this was our after 10p event & I was a little shocked to hear all the F bombs roaming rampart.

■Psych Ward Tour - (its added to the end of the Haunted Factory Tour FYI) Dude now this part creeped me out major. There is one guy in there & he is supposedly gutting a victim and holy crap, I swear he was about ready to take another one out of our group. He just looked scary freaking creepy!!!!

■The VOID - this section freaked me out. I am not usually afraid of the dark, but combine dark, creepy, sparks, and a passage way that feels like it is shrinking and man oh man - wig out time. Didn't help matters any that the creepy girl crawled off the bed and up the wall after me.

■The 3D Fun House - Squirrel is your guide/tormentor through this maze of 3D paint and drop walls and she will totally giggle you crazy. Out of all of them this was my favorite, but then I kinda like going oh shiny - squirrel!!!!

■The Mausoleum (A multi-level, crawl-through attraction!) - I was unable to go through this one, as it is impossible to crawl with a broken finger, however BF says it was a good one.

I honestly think my favorite part of the whole thing was the photo attraction in the gift shop, but that could be because the couple running it were just entirely too sweet. (Not exactly what you expect at a haunted house, but still fun).

Quick little side note: if you go after 10p these attractions go rated R so be prepared for adult lanuage and supposedly they grab you. But I never got touched. lol.

A word of warning for everyone going to out to spooksvilles this Halloween season - don't stick your hand in a coffin or a box while you are inside unless a guide tells you to feel something. A girl in one of the groups behind us evidently thought it was a good idea to stick her hand inside a crate gag (I'm unsure if someone was inside pull the latch or if it was hydrolic) and the lid slammed down on her finger smashing her ring and causing her a great deal of pain. Now you would think that I would have a bit more sympathy due to having just smashed my hand in a car door, but personally, I think she is a tweedle and should have known better than to stick her hand in a box in a creepy room.
Sorry there aren't any pictures, but most houses frown on flash photography inside and as stated earlier, this one isn't much to look at on the outside.

Tablescape

No so much of an I want it, but this is what I want to do one year.

Pirate Ship

Yep you guessed it - over at Grandine Road again. LOL.

Graveyard

Over at Grandin Road they have some of the best halloween decos I've ever seen!

In My Veins Drink Dispenser

Saw this over at Fright Nights and fell in love with it.

Halloween Costumes

Okay so my problem is that I'm a big girl (short but really round) and non of the off the rack costumes come in my size. So I'm going to attempt to make a costume again this year (Poison Ivey went really bad).

I'm considering either a Pirate



Or a sexy vamp


Or maybe something like a ghost


Care to vote?