CAMERAS! WE NEED CAMERAS With my XL2 still out for repair we are left in a lurch for the upcoming pranks. I urge anyone who has a minidv camcorder available to them to contact me as soon as possible! I have my own little shrimpy camera which is awful, and I plan on checking out some pawn shops and the like for more cheap options.
Tonight! Haunted houses! I'd like to hit the 13th door and Frightmare with a run-through. This will all start around 9:30. Currently in my car are Richie, Lea, Laura, and Logan, though this will change for the actual "pulling up and loading out" part.
Anyone else who wants to participate will have to get their own ride. I know Josh has his own car and Crix has the explorer (right?), but they will be in charge of who they take. If you can't participate tonight, don't worry, we'll be doing this again next week as well.
Tomorrow! The Casket Races! I'd like to be in Manitou by 11AM, with the parade and races starting at noon. It takes about an hour and a half to get there, so I'd like be out the door and on the road by 9:30.
What this event consists of is sort of a small vacation-town Halloween celebration. The background is as follows:
Emma Crawford lived in Manitou Springs at the turn of the century, arriving with the hopes that the famous drinking Mineral Springs would help with a cure for her tuberculosis. Sadly, in the summer of 1890 Emma died quite young, just before she was to marry Mr. Hildebrand, an engineer on the Pikes Peak Cog Railway. Her wishes were to be laid to rest on top of Red Mountain. Her heartbroken fiancee and eleven other men began the arduous task her carrying Emma's coffin up to the top of Red Mountain. It took them all day, working two shifts to scale the 7200 foot Summit. After years of stormy weather on the granite mountain the granite gave way and Emma's remains were washed down the side of Red Mountain. Emma was later buried in the Manitou Springs Cemetery in an unmarked grave. An official grave site was granted to her in 2004 to honor her life. Now every year in late October, Manitou Springs remembers this beautiful young woman who loved her town and her Red Mountain with this unique festival.
More info can be seen here:
http://www.manitousprings.org/coffin_races.htm So basically, it's like Halloween combined with a Kinetics race, sort of.
We are going down as part of the DHA to participate in the hearse parade. This was a lot of fun last year, and then it was just Shauna and me doing the parade.
It will likely be ass-cold in the morning, but the forecast says about 70, so dress in layers, or bring layers.
Basically what I would like to do is get down there, hang out and take pictures, maybe grab some local grub (chocolate-covered twinkies... not even kidding), do the parade, then get the hell out of there.
On the way back up (around 2, possibly, I don't honestly know) I would like to stop at Park Meadows and do a run-through with the incense trap. I've got a path worked out so we can enter relatively undetected, then haul ass out through the food court. Hopefully it will be packed.
After that I think we're going to have a go at the 16th street mall, with full smoke bomb. Depends on how much time we have left.
Thoughts?