GPNA: "Scariest"
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Here's the deal. The coffin was tilted just a little bit away
from the sidewalk - and it was higher, so from the street you
couldn't see anyone in it. We'd quietly lay there operating the
fog machine until we heard or saw some unwitting trick-or-treater
approach. Then we'd sit up slowly, in an unnatural maner, and they
would, essentially, panic.
Then we'd lure them back with candy from our huge cauldron.
It was a blast.
Didn't get an accurate count, but there were at least 300 trick-or-
treaters again this year. At one point (and I wish I had taken a
photo) they were three deep and covering the entire sidewalk.
Lots of people stopped to take pictures of us, or wait for us to
frighten the next hapless group of kids.
Fog test earlier in the day. The trench is part of the (neverending)
construction project, and worked great for fog. This is how it looked
all night too - though it photographed far better in the daylight.
One of Pat's big projects for next year is to develop "low fog"
capability. In short, if you cool it, it'll behave more like dry ice...
Here's one of me rising from the dead to distribute candy.
I spent the first couple hours in the coffin.
Eve and I pose for a quick photo. She was second in the coffin for
about an hour.
Pat rounded out coffin-duty for the final hour. Here he is with a
particularly brave Tigger whose mother just couldn't resist the photo-op
with the undead.
Fortunately, more people didn't try climbing into the coffin with us.
Most just started to run away until we dangled candy in front of them.
Here are my kids, Harry Potter and ... umm ... Harry Potter.
Everyone goes ga-ga over the pumpkins, but for us it's actually one of
the easier components. The trick is to buy a bunch of them, then get
the four of us and work them together. It only takes about 90 mins, and
we run it a bit like a haphazard assembly line.
Oh yeah, and the jigsaw is huge. Seriously. It revolutionized the process
and cut (NPI) the time in half.
Timestamps on the photos say one hour and twenty minutes to carve eleven
pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns. We're getting pretty good!
Individual pumpkin pics follow:
Hope to scare you next year...
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