This week we went to Factory of Terror, Guinness Book of World Records holder for longest Haunted House in the WORLD!!!! Yeah...
We went here last year, too, and it had been heard that it was rearranged this year so that they could continue to hold the longest title. It was rearranged in some places, but it was mostly the same as last year. The areas where it was rearranged were not beneficial to the haunted house, it just made it seem...tedious. Like the area with the chain link fence. If you've been here, you know what I'm talking about. Just tedious.
Overall, though, this house is pretty good. It's def one to visit, though I heard that Saturdays hold an impossibly long wait time. We go on Fridays and we only waited for a little bit.
So, what's good about it? Well, it is long, and that can be good. It has really good atmosphere (as long as you don't have dumb girls behind or in front of you) and the props are really good. I think they depend on hydraulics a bit too much but, as my brother said, if they had the staff to work the house they could use that as a good distraction for a good scare. That brings up my main beef with this house. It was pretty understaffed when we went. There were some parts where you just walked around and...nothing. There was no one there. But, the actors that were there were pretty good. They have these two huge guys who work there...well, they are freaking huge. And creepy. And did I mention huge? Also, Satan is my favorite actor in the house. These actors, they have character. It's pretty cool.
Other good stuff about it? There was a pre-house before you even made it to the actual line for the haunted house. Pretty awesome. And the mirror maze. It really is pretty kick ass. The mirror maze was actually better this year than it was last year.
So, other than some parts of tediousness and the lack of actors, this is a solid house worth visiting. Make sure you get the $2 off coupon for max discountage and go on a Friday or Sunday night to avoid the lines.
Factory of Terror gets 7 out of 10 industrial disembowelments.
Next week is the last week, which is kind of sad. We are either going to Forsaken, in Mentor, or we might entertain going to Clay's Park, probably forsaken, though...
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
I wish that Joan of Arc wouldn't hang around the park
Hello. This is just an update on life kind of post. A mishmash of stuff. And yes, I am aware that I still owe you a nerf war post. I promise, as soon as I get the photos up I will, it's just the computer dying has put me behind on pictures, you know? You know.
First, we made sauerkraut yesterday. Me and Ry and Asher, and Martin came to help for a bit, too. We made two buckets, 45 lbs of cabbage each. We were on a roll. Here's some photos of Asher helping for you to enjoy.
It was fun, even if there were 60 mile per hour gusts all day and it was pretty chilly. You make it outside, unless you really like having a huge mess all over. Cause it's messy. We still have more cabbages left, too. I guess we bought to many when Asher, Katya and I went to the farmer's market in Edinburg (I know it's far away, but their cabbage is so huge and cheap at 1.50 for a 10lb head). So, the kraut is fermenting and in a month I'll be canning it with my mother.
I am thinking about making a third bucket and selling it by the jar. I wonder how much people would pay for it and if people would want to buy it...I don't know, really. I mean, I love kraut, and fresh kraut is always better than that store garbage...but I don't know if many people share my love for kraut.
In other news, I just discovered recently a character flaw of mine. I over react. I was kind of surprised when I realized it, and then knew it to be true. I asked my friends about it and they told me that, yes, in fact, I do over react. At first I was a little upset that no one told me. I mean, isn't that what you should do when your friends are being crazy psychos? But, as my hubby pointed out, a good friend would just accept you for your faults and tolerate you, or just avoid you when you were crazy (if your friends are guys) and hang out with you when you weren't, but would never tell you when you were being a crazy super psycho bitch.
So, I'm gonna work on my over reacting. No promises, because often I don't realize I'm doing it until after the fact, but I'm going to try.
Anyway...not much else to say right now. Have two Halloween events on the same day next weekend, so that will be a challenge...I don't know, I need to talk to JJ...
I should probably get to work.
It was fun, even if there were 60 mile per hour gusts all day and it was pretty chilly. You make it outside, unless you really like having a huge mess all over. Cause it's messy. We still have more cabbages left, too. I guess we bought to many when Asher, Katya and I went to the farmer's market in Edinburg (I know it's far away, but their cabbage is so huge and cheap at 1.50 for a 10lb head). So, the kraut is fermenting and in a month I'll be canning it with my mother.
I am thinking about making a third bucket and selling it by the jar. I wonder how much people would pay for it and if people would want to buy it...I don't know, really. I mean, I love kraut, and fresh kraut is always better than that store garbage...but I don't know if many people share my love for kraut.
In other news, I just discovered recently a character flaw of mine. I over react. I was kind of surprised when I realized it, and then knew it to be true. I asked my friends about it and they told me that, yes, in fact, I do over react. At first I was a little upset that no one told me. I mean, isn't that what you should do when your friends are being crazy psychos? But, as my hubby pointed out, a good friend would just accept you for your faults and tolerate you, or just avoid you when you were crazy (if your friends are guys) and hang out with you when you weren't, but would never tell you when you were being a crazy super psycho bitch.
So, I'm gonna work on my over reacting. No promises, because often I don't realize I'm doing it until after the fact, but I'm going to try.
Anyway...not much else to say right now. Have two Halloween events on the same day next weekend, so that will be a challenge...I don't know, I need to talk to JJ...
I should probably get to work.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Haunted Houses week 3, Ghost Lake at Conneaut Lake Park
We went to Ghost Lake at Conneaut Lake Park this week. What a drive. I was under the impression that it was near Conneaut, Ohio. Which, if I had just looked at a map I would have realized that this was a false interpretation of it's proximal location. It's not really close to Conneaut, Ohio. It's much closer to Conneaut Lake, PA. Meaning that it's in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania. Either way, after our 1 hour and 45 minute drive into the middle of nowhere PA, we get there and park in the largest mud pit in which you might have the pleasure to park your vehicle. I was gonnna drive this week, and it's probably a good thing I didn't cause I think the mud would have sucked my car into it's dark depths, but I had a flat tire.
My aunt gave us coupons, so that was rock on awesome. The park boasts 9 haunted houses which take you more than 1.5 hours to complete, if you dare... We dared. So we pay and enter and...walk around without much idea of where we are going. I kind of thought that the park would be operating rides, since it's an amusement park. I guess I kind of figured it'd be like it was when we went to Geauga Lake when it was still around, you know, amusement park is operating and haunted houses are going. No biggie, honestly, I was just saying. And apparently there was some type of fall festival going on in the daytime, all the tents were up and covered from the rain in the main concourse.
We walk around kind of aimlessly for a few until we see a booth selling tickets to the dodgem cars turned into Karney horror freak show ($2 extra) and ask and she points us in the right direction. Which we might not have found otherwise, because as we walked in the indicated direction, we were kind of leaving the park. Or so it seemed. As we walked by the Kiddie Park (which they really missed out on the scare factor, the giant bulbous clown head mounted above kiddie park is purely the stuff horror movies dream of recreating) we were slowly entering into a residential block. And then, there it was, the first condemned building, I mean the first house. I think I was more afraid I would fall through the floor or down the steps or off the bannister than of anything else in the house. My fears of tetanus and caving floors would become a common theme throughout the night. Since I didn't actually fall through the floor or get tetanus (that I know of, I did get splinter), it was good for the pump of adrenaline.
We finished the first house and it was pretty fun. Found out really quickly that Pennsylvania haunted houses are very touchy-feely. I got grabbed, touched, chainsawed, punched in the head (accidentally?) once and generally haunted house groped. It was cool with me, it makes things creepier and fun. Hopefully no one tries to punch out an actor, though, I think there's a reason that they don't allow that kind of stuff in haunted houses...Needless, to say, that shit wouldn't fly in Cleveland. But, I liked it. I think it's fun. We dump out on the same street and...follow the block, passing houses where people are living, a Halloween/fall bonfire in the back yard of one, some guy sitting in his patio, people watching TV. It really felt like we were trick or treating, which made the whole thing kind of surreal in a way.
It was a nice change of pace from the normal haunted house recipe that seems to be commonly followed. We proceeded to go into Conneaut Hotel, under the beach house/boardwalk, into another condemned house, a maze in a barn made of hay, into an arcade and a storehouse. All the houses were inside, which was nice, since it was raining off and on, so we only had to be in the rain while waiting in line or walking to the next house.
The last "house" was just riding the blue streak "ghouler" coaster in the dark. Which was pretty awesome. I really like riding a new roller coaster for the first time in the dark, you don't know what's coming and it makes it even more awesome. Also, I am a sucker for wooden roller coasters, maybe it's my nostalgia from the Big Dipper. I don't know. Either way...it was awesome.
I really liked this house, even though it was really far away from our base of operations. The whole night (all 9 haunted houses) cost only $20.00, if you find the coupon, available at Arbys in the Youngstown market, you get 2 bucks off. It was an awesome deal.
I give this house 8.5 out of 10 crazy chainsaw guys.
I'm giving it such a high score because of the 'trick or treat' feel it had, the value, and the overall charisma of the place and the actors. I'm not saying the actors were great, but some of them were, and most all of them were having fun. You can tell these things. And it makes a difference.
My aunt gave us coupons, so that was rock on awesome. The park boasts 9 haunted houses which take you more than 1.5 hours to complete, if you dare... We dared. So we pay and enter and...walk around without much idea of where we are going. I kind of thought that the park would be operating rides, since it's an amusement park. I guess I kind of figured it'd be like it was when we went to Geauga Lake when it was still around, you know, amusement park is operating and haunted houses are going. No biggie, honestly, I was just saying. And apparently there was some type of fall festival going on in the daytime, all the tents were up and covered from the rain in the main concourse.
We walk around kind of aimlessly for a few until we see a booth selling tickets to the dodgem cars turned into Karney horror freak show ($2 extra) and ask and she points us in the right direction. Which we might not have found otherwise, because as we walked in the indicated direction, we were kind of leaving the park. Or so it seemed. As we walked by the Kiddie Park (which they really missed out on the scare factor, the giant bulbous clown head mounted above kiddie park is purely the stuff horror movies dream of recreating) we were slowly entering into a residential block. And then, there it was, the first condemned building, I mean the first house. I think I was more afraid I would fall through the floor or down the steps or off the bannister than of anything else in the house. My fears of tetanus and caving floors would become a common theme throughout the night. Since I didn't actually fall through the floor or get tetanus (that I know of, I did get splinter), it was good for the pump of adrenaline.
We finished the first house and it was pretty fun. Found out really quickly that Pennsylvania haunted houses are very touchy-feely. I got grabbed, touched, chainsawed, punched in the head (accidentally?) once and generally haunted house groped. It was cool with me, it makes things creepier and fun. Hopefully no one tries to punch out an actor, though, I think there's a reason that they don't allow that kind of stuff in haunted houses...Needless, to say, that shit wouldn't fly in Cleveland. But, I liked it. I think it's fun. We dump out on the same street and...follow the block, passing houses where people are living, a Halloween/fall bonfire in the back yard of one, some guy sitting in his patio, people watching TV. It really felt like we were trick or treating, which made the whole thing kind of surreal in a way.
It was a nice change of pace from the normal haunted house recipe that seems to be commonly followed. We proceeded to go into Conneaut Hotel, under the beach house/boardwalk, into another condemned house, a maze in a barn made of hay, into an arcade and a storehouse. All the houses were inside, which was nice, since it was raining off and on, so we only had to be in the rain while waiting in line or walking to the next house.
The last "house" was just riding the blue streak "ghouler" coaster in the dark. Which was pretty awesome. I really like riding a new roller coaster for the first time in the dark, you don't know what's coming and it makes it even more awesome. Also, I am a sucker for wooden roller coasters, maybe it's my nostalgia from the Big Dipper. I don't know. Either way...it was awesome.
I really liked this house, even though it was really far away from our base of operations. The whole night (all 9 haunted houses) cost only $20.00, if you find the coupon, available at Arbys in the Youngstown market, you get 2 bucks off. It was an awesome deal.
I give this house 8.5 out of 10 crazy chainsaw guys.
I'm giving it such a high score because of the 'trick or treat' feel it had, the value, and the overall charisma of the place and the actors. I'm not saying the actors were great, but some of them were, and most all of them were having fun. You can tell these things. And it makes a difference.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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