Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween and I am beat down dog tired. After the Cache Slash Fest then there was our Trick or Treat night last night and this tonight. I took several of my more benign props to the Hospital for their Trick or Treat night. After my 8 hour day I went home drove out to Gary's took down some of my props drove down to Rudy's house to borrow the truck then loaded it up with the props drove to my house loaded up a few more and then off to the hospital. Started set up at around 4:30 and was ready for the first of the ghosts and goblins for the night. The official start was 6 pm so we slipped off to the local Chinese place for supper. We got back to the hospital at 6 and the ghouls was out in force. It was pretty much non stop kids for most of the 2 hours we handed out candy. The staff had to make 2 runs to Wal-Mart for more candy. They said that they usually have about 80 or so kids.....Tonight we had at least 250 kids. At 8pm we started tearing down and loading up. We got about of there and 8:35 and got home to unload and take the truck back to Rudy. Thanks Rudy for letting me borrow the truck. Have a Happy Halloween Everyone! I need a nap.

This is the pumpkin I submitted and won 25$ for first place. I didn't have much competion with only 4 submissions.

This is some of the props in the yard for Trick or Treat night.

Electric chair with new costume this year.

New bloody stump surrounded by severed heads.

New Count Dracula.

Front enterance of the Hospital.

This is the information desk.

This is the main hallway of the Hospital.

Some more Trick or Treaters.

More ghouls and goblins in the night.

Night before Trick or Treat.

Tomorrow is Trick or Treat night for our backward community. I have the fence up and just have a few items to put out for display. I bought enough candy to last us tomorrow night I hope. I am anxious yet tired. i think with all the activity of the Cache Slash Fest I am not as giddy as I have been in the last few years. I am glad that I took tomorrow off to get the yard in good haunted order.

PS I have been working on a Cache Slash Fest slideshow DVD. I have a some success with it but for some reason now, I am burning DVDs that work fine in the program but after I burn them a portion of the DVD doesn't work... This has happend the last few DVDs that I have burn so now I am fed up with it and I am calling it quits. I have invested way too much time and effort into this and now feel like it was a waste of time...

CACHE SLASH FEST 2007

Thank goodness it's over.

Saturday began in a frenzy of moving 3 truck loads of Halloween items to King of Halloween's place. After unloading the haul we setup registration tables and photo back drop. Around 12:45 our first arrivals rolled in and we started registration. Over the next couple of hours we registered roughly 40 groups of cachers. Our final tally of attendees was about 125 and we kept our 5 states that we had last year without gaining any more. After registration we had them sign the Cache Slash Fest pumpkin, name tags and move on over the the photo area.

At appoximatey 1:30pm we explained what we were going to do with the Murder Mystery Cache and gave them their coords. for the caches. We were going to start the bon fire at 4pm but the Murder Mystery solutions were due at 6pm. We had cachers stroll in starting around 4:30ish and continued until after 6pm. After the majority of people got their bellys full we started the prize drawings.

This lasted way too long and by the time it was over, it was dark and we were struggling to read the numbers on the prizes. When we got all the prizes handed out it was time to goto the Night Cache. At the night cache Gary drove them out to Red Hill and the start of the trail head. The started down the path and followed small tack reflectors in the trees down the path. When they got to the cache area they found George Caches body. On their way out we had 3 scare stations set up and a video camera with night shot at my station. After the Night Cache alot of the attendees left to continue caching but some returned with us to the event and enjoyed a compliation slideshow of the last 2 years.

The cachers all left at around 9:30pm and I was exhausted from all the work that it took to get this event together. All in all it went somewhat smoothly. One coord of the 8 caches was off by about 300 ft and we had a few prizes that were handed out wrong that screwed up the count but other than that and running around like a chicken with my head cut off it was worth it. I think next year we are going to scale back a little so that we can enjoy it and not be soon busy. We have gotten nothing but goood reviews so far from our fellow cachers and we hope that everyone had a good time.

As for now....Time to take a nap......ZZZZzzzzzzz.

Halloween Fast Approaches.

Today while Needles went south to meet up with Ragged and others for a knit day, I went to a friends house to help with Halloween preparations. We got a lot accomplished in the 6 hours I was there. King of Halloween said he would probably have everything lite up and going tomorrow night. All I know is that I am home and dog tired. This doesn't feel like October. Hotter than Hell and the ground is so hard we had to water down areas to get stakes in the ground for some of the decorations. I think we are in the home stretch with the Cache Slash Fest 2007. We just have to place caches and do some more scouting for the night cache and I think we will be ready. The rest of it will just have to sort it out as it comes along.