We got up the next morning around 9:30, got ready and basically headed out the door around 10ish. We didn't eat any breakfast so we stopped at Safeway for Seahawk doughnuts and other snack foods to get us through out day. We stopped at Ben's Espresso after finding some pants for Ben to wear for the haunted house at the Goodwill next door. We were now on our way to Puyallup before Wendy called wondering where we were.
We got there and I expected Chris to have a lot of the plastic done like he said he was going to the night before. We should have known. Nothing got done outside that morning. It frustrated us. We all went outside and tried getting as much of the plastic done as we could. A few hours later a bunch of people came over to help.
By 3:00 a lot of the walls, plastic and decorations were done. We hung strobe lights, black lights, red lights, stapled chicken wire to the walls of the "padded" room with the straightjacket patient.
We ate some food and did last minute additions before we got into our clothes and make-up.
We really weren't sure how many people would come through the asylum but we were going to soon find out. We got into our spots, Ben and I were at the beginning of the haunted house so we got to see our victims before they started crying.
An entrance fee was to bring a canned food item so they could donate it to the local food bank. At the end of the night there were quite a few bags sitting in the box. It was a great start to the weekend.
Not as many people came through as I thought there might be. It was rainy, it was a Saturday night (a lot of people were probably at parties) and maybe some people just didn't want to come out.
Afterwards we all went into the house and sat in the living room with cider and shared our stories. We talked about what worked, what didn't work and what we needed to change for Halloween night.
Halloween Night
On Halloween Ben and I had to work so I headed up to Puyallup after I got off of work. I got there around 4:30 just in time to have some food and scramble to get ready for the evening. Ben got off work at 6 so he would be late and we would have to have a stand in until he arrived.
We did make some changes to the set and some of the personnel were different since some of the kids would not be able to make it to both nights. We had a short meeting in the living room of where everyone was going to be and the changes that were made. Not major ones but some simple fixes to make the experience for us and our guests better. Wendy told us that the first night we actually made one little kid pee his pants.
I remember getting onto my platform to scare some children and we had another girl standing in for Ben. An adult couple came in and was so taken by surprise with the girl doing Ben's job, one of the ladies actually punched the girl in the boob. I couldn't help but laugh. We weren't suppose to touch them and they weren't suppose to touch us. Occasionally a guest will touch one of us out of reflex.
Another time during the night I had some parents sacrifice one of their kids after they took a look at my face. We had some children come in and start crying and wanted to be escorted out. There were some adults come in and nervous laugh the entire time.
Ben arrived just after 7, got ready really fast and made his way to his hiding spot. A lot more people screamed at him because of his face. His face was pretty creepy in the dark.
We had more people on Halloween night but probably could have had more if it wasn't raining. No one really wanted to stand outside and wait their turn and get soaked. Part of my area started getting wet from a leak in the ceiling. We wrapped it up around 8:30 when we started getting less and less people wanting to come through.
Again, we picked up our stuff, returned Wendy's costumes to her craft room and sat in the living room to share stories. I had to cut that night short because I had to head home and go to bed because I had to work the next day.
Overall it was fun and I can't wait to see what our theme is next year.
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