Fright Fest

It has been cold and rainy and windy so when it was 55 degrees and sunny today we decided to head down to Fright Fest at Six Flags. Unfortunately the good weather gave everyone in the Midwest the same idea. The line to get in to the park started before we even got off the freeway. It took an hour and a half to get in and that left us with very little time to play. Bernie can now stay in his crate for 4 hours during the day (maybe longer but I think it is mean to leave him longer, except for at night when he sleeps for 9 1/2 hours...smile) so our time was running out before we even walked through the gates. And you can imagine that if the line to get in went on for miles, so did the lines to ride. We decided to stick to the rides that you can always walk right on to, but even those had 30 minute wait times so we ended up only riding 3 of them.  Thankfully we had no interest in any of the haunted houses or Halloween attractions because the lines for those went on for days.

I was so excited to get out of the house and have a little bit of freedom again but walking shoulder to shoulder with a million people ended up being more stressful than fun, if I am being honest. I do miss field tripping around with my family whenever I want to though so it was nice to feel like a normal life may be possible again someday. Bernie did great without us and was sound asleep when we came home. He probably enjoyed the peace and quiet.

Let's move on to pictures. Maybe they will remind me that we did squeeze in a few good moments. The kids were so excited for the trick or treat trail. As it turns out it was not much of a trail, just 5 characters standing in a line handing out candy and small toys. It was still enough to give them something to munch on in line for rides so...good enough.

My kids will never pose with the characters but Bugs just came and jumped in with them so I had to seize the moment.

It was fun to see that there was a little bit of fall color still lurking around the park. Since I live in a wooded area and walk Bernie twice a day I have been able to really take in the beauty of the season this year and I am sad to see it going. Those walks are going to be pretty bleak soon. So anyway, I was taking a picture of the leaves and Alex offered to jump in...


And that made Chloe MAD and she insisted that I take one of her.

So I decided to throw Alyssa in as well. She was so excited to go to Frightfest and carefully selected her Halloween inspired outfit and then helped Chloe to do the same. It was pretty cute so I thought I should get a shot of the two of them. Alyssa looks like she is ready for the runway but Chloe would not open her eyes.

Do you like Alyssa's bangs? I swore I would never have my girls wear bangs. Why? Scroll down a post and look at the bangs that were inflicted upon me as a child. Eek! But Alyssa's hair has always grown right in her face so she begged for bangs and I actually think they work on her face.

I finally scooted them in to the shade to get Chloe to  open her eyes.


This was the graveyard of rides that have passed on over the years. We were happy to see a shiny new tombstone for Iron Wolf because that was the worst ride ever. I hope Ragin Cajun will join it one day because it is equally miserable.






Alyssa is not usually my silly pose-happy child so I had to grab a shot when she made a silly face in this pumpkin.


This pool is usually bright blue but it was blood red and filled with body parts and other nastiness. Apparently it gets really gory and creepy after 4:00 PM but we were on our way home by 3:30 so we didn't get too much of the scary stuff.


As we were leaving the park there was still a massive line to get in the parking lot and the freeway was still backed up. The kids declared that they will never go to Fright Fest again. Bummer, because I had such high hopes but in the future we will stick to our happy, carefree summer days at Six Flags.