As mentioned in the post of the Mac Man, we (Tim & Dana, Tom & Katie, Megan & myself) went to ValleyFair on Saturday, or ValleyScare, as it was during their annual Halloween Haunt activities. It was good fun. In addition to the usual greatness that is ValleyFair (Wild Thing, Steel Venom, XTreme Swing, Renegade.... sweet!), they had a assortment of haunted houses, and people dressed up throughout the park who jumped out of the darkness and scared people. It was pretty fun. While I rarely get anything more than slightly startled during haunted things, my wife and other members of our party were scared relatively often and caused permanent hearing damage to those in their vicinity. I still enjoyed the haunted houses, but usually get more amusement out of the reactions of my fellow group members than I do the actual event. A young girl randomly accompanied us through one of the houses, and apparently her scream switch was stuck to on. It was impressive.
We did have one experience that I had never had before. Going up the first hill of the Wild Thing roller coaster, the coaster stopped. We were a little confused for a few moments, but my wife correctly guessed that they stopped the ride because a couple people near the front of the train had a stuffed monkey that they were holding into the air. I suppose the park employees didn't want it flying away from them and hitting some other Wild Thing passenger, or a random ValleyFair customer far below. As a member of the last seat on the ride (the best place to be on that coaster), I appreciated not getting smacked in the face by something at the ride's top speed of 74 mph.
Oddly enough, we randomly ran into a group of people we knew. Nate & Laura, and Aaron & Mariah (fellow TEC-ies) were standing in line for a haunted house when we walked by. We later ran into them again while we were eating at the Die-In (the lights for the "r" and the "v" in "drive" were not lit up). So we chatted with them for a little while. It was pretty sweet. This anomalitcal (just made that word up) occurrence has also been documented in Aaron's and Tim's blogs, and possibly a future of Nate's. It was very exciting. :)
Anyway, the TEC weekend starts tomorrow, and I'm pretty excited. I just printed out my wheat for the wheat bags (it was a lot of pages) and am roaring to go. So bring it on!
LotD: Performance Artist Implants Ear on His Arm. If you don't like things that look a little... weird, then don't click this link.
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"...and other members of our party were scared relatively often..."
If Tom shrieked like a little girl I think your obligated to name in your blog for the enjoyment of all...
That would have made my day. Unfortunately, the only shriekers were of the female variety. Darnit.
That's a pretty sneaky way of calling Tom a girl. Good thing he doesn't read this, or he'd throw a dress at you.
All of your wheat is supposed to be hand-written in your own blood. What's wrong with you?
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