Posts Tagged ‘Halloween’

The Halloween season has been in full spring for quite a time over here already, but today Flo and I did our first Halloween activity. We went to the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride. The Hayride happens every year in the old Los Angeles Zoo, which is located in Griffith Park. Like the name already gives away it’s a Hayride. You sit on a Hay-carriage and get pulled by a tractor. But for sure you don’t get pulled through a field. The tour goes through the empty old zoo that now is full of scary people and amazing build horror sceneries. We had a lot of fun on the ride, got quite a few scares and were even an attraction for the actors I guess, because one of our friends was screaming like a lunatic.

If you are in town right now you should definitely take the chance to visit the Hayride. But be prepared: It’s scary and the actors/horror creatures come kind of close to you. Besides the Hayride they have a tiny Freak Show Circus going on. You can also walk through a maze, in which freaky people are waiting to scare you.

If you are not into Horror stuff like we are, you should still visit the old Zoo once the Haunted Hayride is gone. It’s creepy but at the same time really amazing to see the empty cages and walk around this former Los Angeles landmark.

BTW: Happy Halloween. I will try to bring you some more Halloween action in the next days!

Officially today is my first Halloween, but for today being a Sunday we went to our first Halloween party, yesterday. Our friends Jeana and Scott took us to their friends party and were also so nice to lend us some costumes. I had to improvise mine a bit, because the dress belonging to the dead bride costume that Jeana gave me, was a bit too tight for me. Flo went as a Ninja and we both felt kind of weird, because we never wear costumes in Germany (except for carnival – but we both are not huge fans).

For us the weirdness actually started pretty early that day when we went for a coffee run and the girl at Starbucks greeted us with Happy Halloween. Afterwards we met our hotel manager with a little girl (maybe his) who asked us to Trick or Treat. I had to give her some german gums, because I hadn’t got anything else in our apartment, but she was fine with it and gave us some candy for a change.

We went to the party in the evening. Actually right before that we drove by a car accident and there was a dead body lying on the street, which was a very creepy way to start your Halloween night. The party we went to was in Newport Beach and the couple that throw it set up everything really nicely. We were kind of stoked about all the costumes. There were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, a Care Bear, Little Bo Peep and Scott went as the movie character from the film Nacho Libre. We were a bit shocked about how short the girl’s costumes are over here. Not many girls would dare to go to a party with skirts that not cover up their whole behinds in Germany.

But I think we have to get used to this as much as we have to everyone being friendly, interested and really openminded. Today we will treat ourselves to a little shopping trip, but if you celebrate Halloween today: Happy Halloween and have fun times!

I am pretty excited for my first Halloween in the US. Yeah, we will only be there for our vacation, but anyways I am pretty stoked about it. I am a huge fan of everything linked to Horror in any way. I love watching horror movies, horror series and even wrote my degree dissertation about them. The problem is that with horror on TV I am not very sensible, but I hate being scared by real people a lot!

Our lovely friends Jeana and Scott will take us to a Halloween party their friends are throwing this year and also want to take us to the Halloween Haunt at Knott’s Berry Farm. I already told them that I can’t go there, because I will have a nervous breakdown when a Freddy Krueger double only touches me.

So right now my biggest problem is to find the right Halloween dress! I don’t want to wear a dress that catches people’s attention, because that will make me a even bigger and more attractive target for scare attacs. But on the other hand I love cute Halloween customs like little sailor ones, or Snow White or a cheerleader one. So what am I gonna do? Get dressed up pretty girly and sexy and attract the scary boys or dress up like a corpse and look nothing but creepy at my first real Halloween?

So, which costume would you recommend? And what was your funniest or creepiest Halloween story? Tell me or I will trick you…