Our town does a pumpkin walk each October. Elementary school kids decorate paper sacks for luminaries and families or businesses donate carved pumpkins or displays for everyone to enjoy. This year, there was even a little spook alley to add to the fun!
The BEST part about this year was that it wasn’t raining and it wasn’t freezing cold! It was perfect! (and apparently our camera has some spots on its lens … gotta fix that!)
Tommy has taken to saying “Scared!” in a little whisper voice with his hands near his mouth whenever something might possibly be scary. Usually, he isn’t scared by the shopping cart we are approaching or the flock of geese we are watching, but he says it anyway. He said it a lot at the pumpkin walk … you know how scary a pumpkin Snow White and her 7 gourd/dwarves are!
We had to get a picture with this Minnie Mouse pumpkin for Grandmama …
Ricky has really, really wanted to go to a haunted house this year, but I didn’t feel he was quite ready for one yet. Having this little spook alley at the pumpkin walk was the perfect solution! But it didn’t open for a little bit, so the boys enjoyed some time playing on the park toys …
Tommy was picking up such speed on the steep slide that I needed to stand at the bottom to stop him from flipping onto his face when he hit the bottom!
Finally the spook alley was open and we were ready to go through. Ricky and Billy were bravely going in first and I had Rusty’s hand behind them. Kevin was the caboose and was holding Tommy. I guess the first guy in a mask that Tommy saw, had him “Scared!” and actually shaking, so Kevin didn’t take him through. Rusty isn’t a big hand-holder, but he wasn’t letting go of my hand! It was just a small hallway with lots of fog and a dozen people dressed up, but it was plenty scary for my 3 year old. I think he was most scared when Billy got corned by a couple of kids dressed up like witches and mummies and couldn’t figure out how to get past them. Rusty was not going to let me walk on without saving Billy.
When we came out the end, Ricky and Billy immediately wanted to do it again! They loved it! I offered to sit with Tommy and let Kevin take the others through. Rusty wouldn’t have that. He said he was just fine sitting with me, too.
My boys’ first experience with a cheesy spook alley – it totally made me think of my dad who loved taking me to several cheesy spook alleys every Halloween. It really was a good night!
