Haunted House Hysterics

So yesterday was a planned day of family fun! Carrie wanted to take the kids to the Halloween party thrown at a local high school. All of Nicky’s close school friends were going to be there. So we dressed the kids in their Halloween costumes and I have to say they looked great, especially Jordan as Dorothy. Corey was running around the house just

Look at those happy faces!...but not for long...w

yelling “I have Buzz” and Nicky was swinging his imaginary light saber (we didn’t want to let him have the one he will use on Halloween because he would lose it) and repeating “I killed you”. It was going to be a fun day. Can you smell the sarcasm?

So we got to the school and met with the other parents and just watched our kids go crazy. There was a ton of coloring books, markers, paints and a pumpkin patch for them to play with along with cookies which I took full advantage of! For the last 30 minutes the kids were enthralled with the magician and Jordan got to yell at 10 year olds for wearing masks that were to scary. I was happy because we all got to sit for a bit and my wife had a few laughs supplied by the magician. At the end of the party an announcement was made that we can all attend the Haunted House that was put together by the high school kids. Carrie immediately wanted to take the kids and I told her it was a bad idea and she insisted that it would not be scary.

We walked down the street to the Community Center only to stand in line for 40 minutes in the rain. As we were standing there, a few parents came out saying they thought it was a little to scary for little kids but my wife shrugged it off. Once inside we were asked to pay $3.00 per person and stepped into a spooky living room. While we were waiting in the room my kids started to explore and found a high school kid hiding behind a black curtain (he was an integral part of the opening scene of course) and began to tell everyone that there was a big kid back there. Micky and Mini soon entered the room and told the kids they wanted to read them a story. While reading the book the lights went off and when they turned on again the book was missing! Do you know took it? Well my kids did! So began the hunt through the house for the missing story book.

The next room contained a bunch of kids walking around in zombie make-up. None of them said anything but they just stared at the kids and walked around the room. There was another Disney character there but I know who it was supposed to be but it was a Disney theme. Isn’t that nice?….scare the hell out of little kids with Disney characters. So now Corey and Jordan start to get a little scared and start clenching my hand. We ran from that room as per Mini’s instructions and headed into the basement. As we rounded the turn on the stairs, a hand came out from the conspicuously placed hanging sheet. My kids all screamed and Jordan began to say she wanted out! At the bottom of the stairs and around a corner was a kid dressed as Captain Hook. He popped out and scared the crap out of all of my kids and wouldn’t stop scarring my daughter. Carrie of course yelled at him and closed the black curtain right in his face. At this point Jordan and Corey are in full hysterics. Carrie is now carrying Corey and I am holding Jordan’s hand and dragging Nicky on my leg. There was a room with a Genie and a nasty guard and some ghosts but we left that room in a hurry. In the next room was a bunch of kids hiding under a table trying to grab the kids legs while the Mad Hatter ran around screaming and yelling. Again we rush out of that room into the next and my wife had enough. She yelled “Is there a way out of here because my kids are crying!” Carrie and Corey quickly left the room through a side door and I soon followed with Jordan. Nicky stayed to finish the tour with this friends and their parents.

It was bad! Corey and Jordan were crying for 10 minutes after getting out of the building and they talked about it for the rest of the night. Nicky tried to play it off as if he wasn’t scarred but he later admitted that he was. I knew we were in for a long night and I was right. Corey and Jordan couldn’t stay asleep and woke up multiple times telling us how scarred they were. You can bet your ass that we will not be doing that again for a long time! I am glad I have this blog because I can document for all time that I was right when I told my wife that we should go to the Haunted House!