Happy Halloween! (Also a week late!)

Had a nice Halloween here in Durham. Shawn and I were hoping for trick or treaters and we weren't disappointed. We went through our first two bags of candy with the first three groups of kids. Shawn had to run to the store so we were stocked for the next round. Of course less kids came after that and we ended up with a collection of left over Starbursts and Hershey Kisses (the Peanut Butter Cups were gone pretty quickly!)

Although it was Halloween, it wasn't much different from every other Sunday. I spent the day working on a media law exam while Shawn helped John, our neighbor, work on his car. Then it was time for puppy class, dinner, and a ringing doorbell with a variety of vampires, princesses and animals behind it.

Of course our little animal was prepared for the holiday. Bella had her pumpkin shirt on before the kids came by, and a number of them asked to pet her. She was very well behaved. Jack, of course, did not wear a costume. One Halloween in a t-shirt a few years ago was enough for him, so we avoided putting him through that again.

Above are the jack-o-lanterns we did at the pumpkin carving our neighbors had. Shawn did Mario (on the left if you couldn't tell) and mine is a dragon).

Anyway, hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

The Clayton Fear Farm--Frighteningly Fun!

Although this post is more than a week late, I still felt it was worth adding to the blog.

After our first haunted house with Arianna and Tim, Shawn and I wanted to try to find a haunted house that was really worthwhile. Now, something you should know about me upfront if you don't already--I am not really a big "scary" fan. I don't watch scary movies, and I don't particularly enjoy being frightened. That being said, I do think haunted houses can be fun, and I went to the Haunted Palouse every year we were in Pullman and absolutely loved it.

I decided to turn to google for some help finding a haunted house. Of course that is where I found out about the last one too. While browsing, I came across the Clayton Fear Farm. A farmer took his 150 acre farm and now only uses 40 acres for farming. The rest is used during October as a haunted farmground. It has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and they call this type of business AgriEntertainment. (If you are avid Office fan, you might be thinking of Dwight and his beet farm here--that was AgriTourism, a separate but similar branch of the Agri-Industry).

Right when you get to the farm you can tell they have gone all out. They had a really long line for tickets that stretched past the "fear farm" hurse.

Shawn and I went with my office mate, Laura, and her girlfriend, who really enjoys haunted houses. Laura happens to not be a huge fan either. However, we all had a great time. They had so many different activities. We went through a haunted school house, a slaughter house (gross--and not my favorite), a haunted dark walk, a corn maze and a haunted hay ride--just to name a few.

Here is a picture of Shawn from the corn maze. Although this wasn't haunted, it was still a really great corn maze. It was 3 miles long! We didn't take the 3 mile route and opted to go to the right, which took more like 20 minutes according to the woman who provided some guidance.