[movieman64]

Well now that Halloween is over, and we have started to tear down the Haunt I hope things will start to get back to some degree of normal. We did great this year, despite a couple rainy/cold nights. Overall the crowds were good, the wait wasn't too long, and everybody had a lot of fun, (us and the patrons). We had a lot of TOT's Sunday evening, and the younger one's were not to enthused about going through the haunt, even with the lights turned up! We had a lot of repeat customers and that hurt us a little on the donations, but overall we did good. We had a small fight Friday night, and we asked both parties to leave. Saturday night I asked a local city police officer who was going to be off duty if he could help us out? I told him we couldn't really afford to pay him, but his food, would be free, and any of his family/friends could come out too. He was great, and guess what...no problems. Too bad it had to come to that but hay.

I got a chance to meet one of the guys who was putting on a Haunted Hay ride in a town about 20 min from us. He came out to our haunt, went through and then introduced himself. He wanted to come back during the day and see how we did some of our stuff! I told him fair is fair, so when could I visit his haunt. He gave me their times for the weekend and said to ask for him at the ticket booth. I showed up on a Friday night and the place was packed. They told me there was about a 1 1/2 to 2 hour wait...WOW!!! They charged $5.00 per and had what they called "fast track" tickets too for $10.00, you got to go right in not much waiting. He and I went through the ride on a golf cart like thing, we followed one of the wagons, (each wagon held 20-25 people), so we could see the effect. I had a good time and got some good ideas...we talked about setting up a haunt of our own next year, so well see what happens.

Next weekend we are having our after-party...and we do it up just like Halloween it's always been great fun