Rich's Farms and Kennywood Phantom Fright Nights

The first night Janelle got in to town, we took her to a haunted house. The scariest one ever! Here in PA, you don't just go through a make-shift tent, or staged backlot.... you go to a real farm! I think that's what makes it twice as scary. You walk through real corn fields and a real farm house! I was really excited to go to Rich's Farms this year because Jan-Michael and Wes (Jan's brother) always talked about it when we lived in CA. I guess I just didn't expect it to be so scary! We went on a wagon ride through the fields where various things/people would pop out and chase the wagon... Then we had to go through the front/backyard of the house.... And then through the actual house! Every time Janelle and I made it to the end (or what we thought was the end), we would clap and yell "Yay, we survived!" only to find out that we were not even close to being finished. On top of all the scaring, it was snowing! Honestly, I closed my eyes through most of it and just let Jan-Michael pull us along =p


Halloween night, we went to Kennywood! Yes, I know I have still not posted pictures of the cute theme park from this past summer. But during Halloween season, they shut the park down and re-vamp it for their Phantom Fright Nights. For those who have ever been to Knott's Scary Farm or Universal Studios Horror Nights, you can guess what to expect. Fog machines everywhere, only the "scary" rides open, mazes, and lots of actors scaring you at any moment. It was brave ladies night- meaning Angela, April, Janelle and I went by ourselves! Yep, we had no guys to protect us. Jan-Michael stayed home to scare all the trick-or-treaters with his costume from last year (the headless horseman). So it was just us girls, braving the scary mazes. It was fabulous! The mazes were the scariest I've ever seen. There was even a 3-D pirate maze and we had to wear 3-D glasses! The scariest part was when we were in this graveyard maze- a scarecrow was hanging on his "perch", moving around and taunting us when all of a sudden he jumped down and started chasing us! I guess we didn't expect that he could get down! haha! We stayed until the park closed at 1am! It was a blast!