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Sunday, October 15, 2006

A Very Enjoyable Friday the 13th Indeed.

In celebration of Friday the 13th, I went to Cedar Point for Halloweekends with some friends. It was a blast, despite the chilly weather. We spent the entire evening acting like smart asses in all the haunted houses, much to the chagrin of the people around us and all of the monsters. Poor little monsters. Some of them came a little close for comfort though, and A and I found ourselves getting followed and sniffed by some of them. It was very strange. Perhaps they wanted to eat us for a tasty snack.

We did end up riding a couple of rides like the matterhorn and the blue streak. Most in our group did not want to ride any of the really big roller coasters, so we just stuck to the small ones. The worst part was when we waited almost an hour for "werewolf canyon" and it ended up being lame as hell. I guess the werewolves were tired. They didn't even try. We made it fun by screaming really loudly if they started to approach us. One guy was lying on the ground and started to get up, but decided to lay back down after we screamed bloody murder at him. It was hilarious.

On our way out, we stopped by the saloon in Frontier Town to drink $6 beers* and watch the cabaret show titled "Eternal Jamnation". It was actually quite good, and they were all really great singers. Their set list was an interesting mix of covers ranging from Black Sabbath to the Beatles. We enjoyed it immensely until some douche next to us started harassing A because she was laughing. Apparently he took offense to her not taking a cover band in Halloween costumes seriously. It almost looked like he might try to hit her, but luckily Eddie moved me out of the way and stood next to him giving him the stank eye till he left.

So in short, everything was great, sans the dickhead at the saloon.

*And yes, the beers were actually six dollars a piece. What a rip! I guess it's a way of trying to deter people from getting wasted, but for six dollars, it should do tricks or something.

6 Comments:

Blogger Winter said...

For $6 a beer SHOULD do tricks!

You didn't ride any coasters?!? Blasphemy. That's the whole idea of going to Cedar Point.

Anyway, I'm glad you guys had fun and that you had a good Friday 'teh' 13th. The part of mine that I spent at work was pretty sucktastic.

10/15/2006 12:50 PM  
Blogger colonel eggroll said...

We like to go to all the haunted houses. I think that's the fun part of halloweekends. Also all of the halloweeny decorations.

10/15/2006 2:20 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am pissed that Australia doesn't have Halloween. I mean, we heart everything else American, inluding the wars, but people are just too proud to dress up and do fun stuff. My friends and I have tried to correct this obvious cultural deficit for some time, but without any real success.

10/15/2006 11:29 PM  
Blogger colonel eggroll said...

What?!? No Halloween?! The costumes are the best part! That, and handing out candy to kids. Last year I saw a little kid dressed up as george w. and I thought it was so cool.

At least you're in a band, so you can just use that as an excuse for strange outfit choices.

10/16/2006 12:32 AM  
Blogger Winter said...

I'm with her, "Whaaaaaat?!?"

I guess we'll have to have extra fun to make up for you when we go out this year.

10/18/2006 2:48 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's a bit sad, isn't it? My old band used to do a Halloween party each year - book a live music venue, then decorate it with streamers and cardboard pumpkins and stuff. Then we'd get all our favourite local bands and poets to perform. We had some of the best gigs ever that way.

This year, though, will be boring, so do have some extra hilarity just for my sake. Dress up as Steve Irwin and represent our whole Halloween-deprived country.

10/18/2006 11:28 PM  

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