My Herd of Nerds: Our Spook-tacular Friday Evening

It's been a while since we went out and did something fun for the kids, so on Friday, Tim came up with the idea to take Kenzie to her first haunted house! She's been talking a lot of game lately with him about how she wouldn't get freaked out during scary movies, or other scary situations, so he thought he'd put it to the test.

We decided to go to "Nightmare Hallow-Scream Park" which has haunted hayrides, a haunted house, and a clown maze!!!

The first thing we did was the haunted hayride. Sophia (my best friend Shannon's daughter) got the bright idea that we should sit in the very back of the hayride... At first, Kenzie was completely freaked out, but about halfway through the ride, she was laughing at the characters when they tried to scare us. At this time, the girls switched perceptions - Sophia was now the one that was getting freaked out, and Kenzie was having the time of her life.

When we were standing in line to get into the haunted house, Tim was psyching Sophia out, and got her so scared, that when she went into the main building to go to the bathroom, she didn't come back! I am SO not the scary movie/haunted house sort, and during the haunted house, there were several times where Shannon and I grabbed each other and ran for it.... After you got done with the haunted house, you had the choice, either exit the building, or go through the Clown Maze.... OMG, I will NEVER AGAIN do something like that - I'm so freaked out by clowns, yet Tim got us all to go through it... At the very end of it, Shannon and I took off as fast as we could muster, and at some point, Tim said something to the effect of "I will NEVER see you guys run that fast again..."

After that, Kenzie just HAD to have pictures with all the "bad guys" because she was loving it so much - all in all, it was the best Friday evening we've had in a LONG TIME