I absolutely love this time of year! It's just beginning to get cold with all the leaves changing color and falling to the ground. It is so beautiful. I also love the holidays! It starts with Halloween, goes to my birthday, then Thanksgiving and before you know it, it's Christmas!! I actually had to stop myself from buying Christmas decorations today. How sad. But just to you know what's going on, here are some pictures. Last Friday, Em and I woke up and both had the idea to have a movie night. We thought that we knew enough people and so we did it. I went and got Wait Until Dark, which isn't overly scary because it is surprising how many people don't like scary movies, and there are some guys in the category too. So I thought it was Halloweeny enough and just enough suspense to be good. I decorated the apartment and tried to make some toffee, which didn't come out, but everyone loved it anyway. It was soft instead of hard. I really hate making candy, it's so temperamental. So we got it all ready and quite a few people actually showed up (surprising how many people don't have something to do on Friday nights) and we had a blast. Everyone really enjoyed themselves. We are like the cool, new people with the amazing apartment. I love it!!
So this is the apartment.
I think my crowning achievement was the chair. Notice the line of spiders going out the porch.
These are the mirrors. I think I'm pretty good with that stupid web stuff.
And these were our snacks. You just can't have a party without them. It was a good combo of sweet and salty. And it's all so festive!!!
Every detail was taken into consideration.
Basically it was really cool and everyone enjoyed themselves. It was the talk of the weekend and I feel if we have another one, everyone will want to come.
The next day we got invited to Thanksgiving Points Cornmaze. I really wanted to go through the scary one, but once again, apparently a lot of people get scared around here. Still we had a lot of fun going through all the little activities they had.
They had these things all over the place. And these are some of my new friends! Aren't we funny.
I thought these were actual go-carts. They are actually pedalled manually. They were actually really hard to work.
These were some tire swings in the shapes of horses, dragons, motorcycles and other things. Really cool!
Apparently there is actually a Pumpkin Princess every year. I had no idea, but we were allowed in the carriage. My friend is trying to be funny as the driver.
This was pretty funny too. I have no idea why it was there, but still, I was locked away.
It was a fun night. And the maze wasn't really that hard, but still, an experience is what you make it. They also had a hay ride, 100 carved pumpkins (which were amazing), and a mini maze where you had to crawl through bundles of hay. Overall, a very funny, very Halloween weekend.
And then there was tonight. Em and I started with the game, but after the 3rd quarter we stopped. Definitely fair weather fans. So we decided to carve pumpkins and watch Hocus Pocus instead. Much more fun and happy. So I did the first pumpkin. I saw it in a magazine and really liked it. Then I saw the white pumpkins and decided I had to do it. When you light it, it looks like a starry night around an old tree. I think it's cute.
And this one, Em cut out. I found the picture online and enlarged it and brought it home. Too bad I kind of hate carving pumpkins (at least hard ones) and so she said she would. It is Lock, Shock, and Barrel, the trick-or-treaters from Nightmare Before Christmas. It's cool because now we have done Mr. Oogy-Boogy, Jack Skeleton and the Trick-or-Treaters. Now all we need is Sally and Zero and we'll basically have the whole gang.
Anyway, I'm having a blast, especially with the holiday season, and I hope everyone else is too!! I love you all! Happy Halloween!!
