Happy Birthday Mau!

Didnt' realize your license expired this year, did ya? Don't you just love those pop-up expenses when you're dead broke? Enjoy the cupcakes!

FunkyB came through when I couldn't. He decided to get us tickets to King's Island's new Halloween Haunt. We brought Nick (the neighbor boy) and FunkyB brought his sister, Jill, and Natalie ended up meeting us out there after she got off work. The price included all day admission so we went early and rode some rides then you could do the haunted stuff after 7pm until 1am. Since Cedar Point bought them this year, the haunted thing was much better than Paramount's which had gone downhill since it started. Much more crowded but the decorations were way better than past years. There were tons of haunted attractions which I thought would even out the people but all the lines were horrible. I liked the CarnEvil one we went through and was surprised when Sky liked it. He spent the entire line saying how he didn't want to go through it and made me keep my arm around his neck. Once we got in there, however, Sky was laughing his head off and I found myself literally dragging Nick on my back. He had his head buried in my back the whole time and a death grip on my hoodie so it was choking me. I laughed everytime someone jumped out at us but Nick screamed like a little girl so of course the person would go after him. I kept telling him to just laugh and they'd leave him alone but he wasn't hearing it. After that, he refused to go through any more so Mau would tell every monster we met walking around that "He wants to talk to you." and would point at Nick then Nick would scream and run away. Keep in mind he's 17. It was rather comical until Nick was visibly pissed at Mau so he stopped. We did the haunted path without Nick because the line was only 20 minutes long and the outdoor ones are always cool but everything else was a 2-3 hour wait. Forget that. We even waited over 2 hours for the Beast "Unleashed" but it was must and even though I was coming down with something and felt like I was going to die in the endless line, it was worth it. I held my still-healing boob in one hand to reduce the bouncing/pain and held my other hand up the whole time. Laugh if you must. We all had a good time and I really thank FunkyB for making it happen and buying pizza!