Backtrack to Halloween 2012 memories
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I didn’t write about Halloween 2012/2013 at all so I have to go back & jot down notes before I get too old to remember.
2012 I had just gotten divorced so everything was this weird blur… except for Halloween. It was someone one of my busier ones where I spent a lot of time with friends doing various stuff, lol. Chad was living here at the time & Mike A. was here visiting as well as my ex-hubby and since we’re all friends, we did a lot of stuff. Amazing Jonathan has a haunted house inside one of the Fremont st hotels & it was by far one of the most innovative ones we’d been to. I went with Virtumike & Chad… the first room was a maze made out of old slot machines which we legitimately got lost in. Then we went up the stairs to a “hotel check in” & the rest was a blur. I remember entering a bedroom set with a huge mirror (reflecting the bedroom set) except that it wasn’t a mirror at all…. we had to step through it to enter the next room… very cool!
That was also the year that Hard Rock hotel did a haunted house in their nightclub Vanity… which was the worst fucking haunt I’d ever been to. It was literally “how not to do a haunt.” I went with the entire crew, Rob, Virtumike, Ackerman, Chad cuz we got a stupid Groupon. It was seriously stupid.
Chad, Matt, Ackerman, Virtumike & I also did the Trilogy of Terror which was cool. It was my first time going through trailer haunts done so well & utilized the space very well. The flying vampire at the end was neat & one of the exits we had to feed a werewolf & then it broke out of the cage & chased us. I like the lil interactive bits like that.
Oct 30th - Ackerman & I went to Palominos where the owner (being a mega halloween freak like me) transformed the entire upstairs of the establishment into a FREE haunted house!! IT wasn’t super scary but it was a lil creepy at parts & a fun hangout. Wait… was this Halloween night & not the night before??? I went as the Nurse from Silent Hill & scared some of the guests walking through the haunt, lol.
Halloween Day!! It was the first day of SEMA and Matt’s car was in it… so we decided since it’s on Halloween we should totally wear costumes. So on Halloween morning, I wake up to all these texts from Matt saying ” HURRY UP & COME DOWN. I”M THE ONLY ONE IN COSTUME!! NO ONE ELSE IS WEARING A COSTUME!!” ROFL. So I had to hustle and get dim sum to go & drive over to SEMA convention. Not many people dressed up, though a few ppl wore a cape or something equally as silly. People who did recognise Matt’s amazing Portal costume were super excited. I was Chun Li & had to pose in front of cars, lol. SEMA has never coincided with Halloween again after that.
On Halloween night…. I handed out candy at Tonys house (not many kids came) & dressed like the nurse from Silent Hill the video game. Afterwards, when he went to bed, I went down to Planet Hollywood to where Ackerman was staying & we went to GORETORIUM!! IT was busy on Halloween night & there were way more scareactors than a normal non-Halloween night. It wasn’t scary at all but the sets were all high budget, gory & elaborate. No real “scare” elements to it though, just a lot of gore. Did we go to Palominos haunted house after?? I think we did. I have pictures somewhere!
I remember we went to the Insert Coins Halloween party & Chad dressed up as Queen Elizabeth & then “accidentally” hit one of the bouncers with his staff & we got kicked out!!! ROFL. There were some really amazing costumes there though. Matt dressed up as the video game character from Portal. I think I was the nurse from Silent Hill. After we got kicked out we headed over to the Drag Queen bowling alley.
Did Chad have a halloween party at his house when Ackerman came?
I remember I really wanted to get married at Goretorium but that didn’t happen… booo…
I remember going to Fremont st a few times & stuff was happening there. I vaguely remember another stand alone haunt right on Fremont st but we never went into it.
