It's the end of October... weeee. That means it's Halloween... oooooh, yeah. A lot of Haunts were done this month by Dave and me. Hmm let me think, we went to Knott's Halloween Haunt, The Dark Harbor (at Queen Mary), Sinister Pointe Haunt, Old Town Pasadena Haunt, and Ghost Ship. Just being able to do haunts is really fun. Especially when you have others to go with you.
We went to Knott's Berry Farm before it was even October. They open their Haunt the last weekend of September. We went with Nicole, Ariel and Joe. So the place was pretty much empty that we were able to do all 13 mazes and even watched a magic show. I think it took us about 2-3 hours to do everything. The mazes were fun, and cool. I always fun seeing what kind of decor they have included. Towards the end of the night, Joe and Ariel have to leave because Joe had to get up early for work. 3 remained. Ooooh. One of the final thing we did during the night was ride Windseeker. This is the newest ride at Knott's. I had seen it advertised during a news cast and I thought it looked awesome. So finally I had the chance that night to ride it. At first it was just an exciting emotion, but at the ride started to go up, I started to get scared. Haha. It went up to high that the night view was amazing.
For the Queen Mary it was just Dave and me. Ariel wanted to go, but couldn't because they had to take their pet to the vet. As we entered, the fun began. We were put right into a scare zone with fog and were all the monsters come out. Totally unexpected. The mazes at The Queen Mary were pretty cool. It was interesting going inside the boat itself. A lot of long dark hallways were fun to go through. But my favorite ones of the night were "The Cage" and "The Village." "The Cage" was just amazing because I have never bee through a maze with fog everywhere. It was almost confusing because you were not sure where to go. All the mirrors on the walls were pretty creepy since you did not expect it. But the best scary part was the hands on the wall. I didn't want to touch them. In "The Village," they set everything up really well. The lighting was perfect and you didn't know where the monsters would be coming out. So I really thought this was a creepy maze. One of the statues in the maze terrified me... and I kept thinking in my head, "please don't move, please don't move." And it didn't move, thank goodness for that. Haha.
Sinister Pointe was awesome. Dave and I went with Nicole and Richard. We all got a scream pass... I think that's what it's was called. We get in the fast past type of thing, and can go in multiple times. We went in 3 times. As we went in the first time, we had our pictures taken twice. I like how they sent you in with just your group. No conga line type of deal. Just the four of us which is how it should be. We had to choose which directions to go. We went through one of the door and ended up in a kitchen area where there were two sinks. We had to press two buttons at the bottom of the garbage disposal to get though this area. Dave and Richard were the ones to do this part. We go through to the next area. This girl with a doll kept following me which was scary... eek. We came upon an area when you end up getting sprayed by a toilet... not a clean toilet but one covered with filth... you can image this nasty, nasty toilet... eww. Nicole and Richard were the first ones to get sprayed with nastyness. Good thing it wasn't real, but it kind of gets to you mentally. Haha. There was also a room where the wall keep moving side to side. This was amazing. Never seen anything like it. We went out and got food out of the food trucks outside the maze. Nicole and I decided to get food from the garlic truck. She got the garlic sliders and I got the garlic grilled cheese. We shared half of what we each got, so we were able to try both meals... I say both were really good... but I still can't decide which one was my favorite. After we ate, we went back in the maze and check out the other ways we could of gone through. We took another pictures as we entered the begging of the maze. This one we ended up getting because it was a picture with all four of us, sitting behind the couch with just our head coming out from the top. Best pic of the night! So anyways, we went in through the doors opposite of the ones we first went through. This time Nicole and I had to get the door to open into our next room. We had to put 4 metal rods into wall sockets. Eeek. We did manage to open it, after a few seconds or so... I think. We had more choices to make when we went through sets of doors. We got stuck in a room with no doors. We were confused... but finally we figured it out when it was revealed that with how they had set the doors, we weren't able to see a hidden door, the door to our escape. So after this second time out, we went out to get more food. We went to the bakery truck and got cupcakes. Dave and I got a red velvet cupcake with hot chocolate. At this point I still had not tried a good red velvet item. But this cupcake was really good. It would have been perfect if it was warm, but for the moment it was still good. After finishing, we went in for the last and final time. We were waiting in line to go in, and one of the monsters came up to us and was trying to scare us with his laugh. But he got something unexpected back. David started laughing back very scary, creepy like. It was so loud that the monster dude started to back away slowly and hiding behind other people. This was so hilarious and definitely memorable. I won't be forgetting this anytime soon. We actually decided to head over to Old Town Haunt in Pasadena. We still had a lot of time left that night so it fit perfect to go. We had to wait a little until the actors/monsters came back from their break... (I like calling them monsters... haha.) I didn't like that all the actors were on the alley way where we were standing and waiting. We could see everyone just hanging out, looking at their phones, and smoking. Totally no cool. The year before this haunt was awesome. This year is was okay/good and I say this only because they sent up in a group of 8 people. During last year, it was 4 people, and it felt more personalized. But it was still a good haunt.
The Ghost ship was the last we did, and it had the worst of reviews. We went with Nicole, Lori, and Richard. So because people were saying this event sucks, Dave had no other choice but to go as he says: "Ruth Style." He filled up a water bottle with vodka. Haha. The Ghost Ship wasn't so bad... when you have alcohol in your system. Dave and I were the ones who drank the most. I was laughing at a lot of things... even if they were not funny... but some things were funny. I was pretty much all happy. But I drank too much... lol. Boo. Oh well... it was still fun.
Aside from haunts... yesterday we went pumpkin carving at one of Dave's coworkers place. I hadn't carved a pumpkin in a long time. The last I remember was in 2004. Then after that, hmmm, when I was a kid. Very long time... haha. I carved plain faces on the pumpkins. I really didn't know what else to do and I didn't want to make something difficult since I hadn't done it in a while. Maybe next year I can try a carving a cat. Dave made a Christmas pumpkin and lights were poking out of the pumpkin through holes. It was really cool, all glowy and fun. All the pumpkins everyone were awesome. There was even a Steve Jobs one. We didn't do any haunts this night because we just hung out with Dave's coworkers. But it was fun anyways just hanging out and enjoying some pumpkin pie, wine and siting by the warm fire.
There are still a few things left over for tonight. David and I will be checking out yard haunts in the area of Burbank and Studio city. We'll see if we can do a few... but anything we do end up doing should be many funs! So I'll be writing about that later on.
