The Waiting is Finally Over!

 

Our theme for this year's Haunted Fairgrounds will be "Horror High" (as in high school).  We'll have a float in the Whaling Days Parade in July and a booth at the Kitisap County Fair in August.  The dates this year will be October 16-17, October 23-24, October 30 and Halloween night.  For families and the squeamish, lights will be on from 5-6 pm but the fun will really begin when we turn the lights off from 6-11pm.

 

We've had several get togethers to decide on the number of rooms in the Sheep Barn (10 or 11), how the Van Zee building will be decorated and it appears we'll be able to use the Cat Barn (adjacent to the Sheep Barn) this year for our event.

 

We'll be attending two or three separate haunt conventions this year.  The first one in St. Louis the end of March, the second somewhere in Minnesota or Wisconsin in April and a third I don't know where or when.  We'll be buying costumes and some smaller items and consumables, attending training sessions for make-up and finally several haunted houses so we can get some new ideas.

 

Between now and the conventions we'll begin sketching the layout and figure what we'll need, especially if we need to purchase something we can't build.  Give me a call if you're interested in participating this year.  We need folks to construct, paint, decorate and most important, participate as actors/actresses in the rooms.

 

This embedded video was taken inside The America's Convention Center, St. Louis at the Fourteenth Annual Haunt.