Saturday, October 23, 2010

Theme park fun, and a small victory....

One of the great things about living in our area, is that we are very close to Busch Gardens. It is pretty awesome to live near an amusement park, as Season Passes to them are great deals if your into that type of fun. We got passes for ourselves, and for the kids the summer passes after not getting them for a few years as the kids were so young. The kids had a ball this year, I even was super brave and went one time without my husband helping with all three, in the summer, on a weekend. I do crazy things I tell ya....

Anyways, back in the day going to Busch Gardens in the fall used to be the way to go. No lines, no crazy tourists, it was like you had the park to yourself. I used to ride the roller coasters over and over and over again without ever getting off. In 2000 they started Hallowscream though, and that changed EVERYTHING, about fall at Busch. I went a bunch in college when I was home, and the year Dave and I got married we went, but we had not done Halloscream since. We finally went last night, and it was glorious! First of all, we were able to go without kiddos, which means no strollers to push, we are able to actually go on rides together, etc etc. Glorious I tell you! And Hallowscream now has really become a huge event. There are 5 haunted houses, the entire park is decorated AWESOME, the whole park is a scare zone now, meaning there are people everywhere jumping out to try to scare you, they just do an incredible job. As a halloween lover, I was just in heaven. We were also able to ride some roller coasters which was fun. The lines were not bad, and all in all we had a lot of fun and would love to go back, but chances are this will be the one time we are able to get away again for a while. Quite honestly I think it would be super fun to get a job there during hallowscream as one of the scary people. Dave says I would make a fantastic witch. Bahhhahaha. Seriously I am going to look into it next year. It might be a fun way to make some extra money for Christmas....

In other household news, I was excited to finally find the battery charger to my camera. The battery died last weekend, and when I went to charge it the next day I could not find that sucker anywhere! I tore through the entire house trying to find it, and pouted for a week. I usually keep it in a basket on our counter,but I got all paranoid that I might have left it back in September when we went to the mountains... We have a very nice camera so the last thing I needed was to lose the charger, as the chargers themselves are not exactly cheap. So victory was mine as I made a last ditch effort to find it. It had fallen out of the basket, in the floor of the pantry closet behind some clutter. Seriously need to clean out that closer before I end up on that show Hoarders...

Now that I have finally found that I can try to do Christmas pictures with the kids soon. I keep saying we are going to do them early so I have plenty of time to try to capture a cute one of the kids in their dresses. It's always an act of God to get a good one where everyone is looking in the same direction. I have a vision of taking this picture at Lion's Bridge, which is a small park area near our house that is on the James River...We shall see...

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1 comment:

Lindsey @ Harpersville Home said...

Yay for Busch!! We love it too! We didn't get passes the last few years because of being pregnant and having a newborn but we got them last month to go through until next fall (love that you can do that!) We try to cut out of the park early so the scary peeps can do their scary and not have to stop because of us - though they've been extremely nice as we've passed them with Abigail. I love the big crow guy out front!! Glad you found your camera charger!