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The Haunted Trail

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Happy Halloween!




No furniture this week, Im taking a break as our season is winding down. But, the guy and I DID carve you some awesome pumpkins. :-) His is the brightests, but my two are creepier. He cleaned them out for me and then let me carve TWO...how awesome is that?


I thought it would be fun to tell you about the haunted trail we created this last week. My guy coaches a middle school girl's cross country team. (Awww!) He likes to make it fun, so that the girls actually have fun with the workouts and runs. Thursdays are often "Fun Runs" and they do things like gummy worm races, scavenger hunts, etc.




This Thursday, he told the girls they would just be running in the dark at the Nature Preserve. What the girls didnt know is, he invited all the parents to come to the Natrue Preserve after dropping their kids off about 1/2 mile down the road from it. The other coach was to meet the parents. The girls didnt know the parents were invited for an extra special treat during this run. Ha ha ha ha ha. How often do parents get to scare their kids?




The Natrue Preserve makes a loop, with a trail through the middle too connecting two sides. Dave and I had gone out previously and put these pumpkins in various spots to be spooky lights through the trees. I stationed myself by one, on a little bridge down a small hill from the trail. Parents were stationed along the trail, silently off to the sides, with masks and costumes. We also hid a bunch in a bird blind to all jump out at once.




As soon as the girls entered the trail, the screaming began. It was AWESOME! When they ran past me, I pulled my hood up and ran across the bridge toward them. The donimo effect of fear and falling bodies is just too fun to watch.

There is only one way in or out of the trail that connects to the loop. After they passed me, I ran opposite them, and place one of the pumkins right in the middle of the trail, where they had already gone. I hid about 20 feet further down.




When they came by again, they really freaked out. But, they also thought something would jump out immediately. I do love a good false sense of security and popped out into their midst once they started running again. (Yeah, they totally didnt want to pass it) I thought about tackling the coach for good measure, but opted not too...as there were two guys running at that point, and in the dark...I might have tackled the wrong one. :-)


Comments

Hannah said…
CUTE! and Fun! I did speed carving this year with nothing fancy (as you know I normally do!) Oh well! haha!
October 31, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Heidi said…
Knowing how graceful you are I would have paid $$ to see you tackle the coach! hahahaha
October 31, 2011 at 7:28 PM
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