Halloween on Stilts

While at Busch Gardens this year for Howl-O-Scream, we saw several characters in costumes walking around on stilts. This is a usual thing there, and I think it is really cool and different. I have been checking Ebay lately, looking at the drywall stilts. There might be an extra tall monster of some sort lurking around Grim Hollow next year. This particular character was associated with the "Masquerage" location. There was a really cool one that I didn't get a picture of that appeared to have 4 legs (I think something was attached to the arms or hands of the person that gave it this appearance). Anyway, the whole costume had a "Ghillie suit" appearance and looked like a big huge monster. Wish I had got a picture of that...

Graveyards at Howl-O-Scream

One of my favorite parts of going to Howl-O-Scream is looking at the massive graveyards that are usually on display. This year wasn't as good, there was one pretty decent sized one, but it is usually a lot bigger (a few hundred tombstones). A lot of the stuff this year was geared towards younger kids, which explains why a lot of the tombstones are outlined with orange lights.

I think this is one of the reasons I like to have so many tombstones in my haunt. I should have close to 50 this year in all.

The Pirates of Howl-O-Scream

I'm not that big of a fan or pirates at Halloween, sometimes I feel like they are overdone, but these were some of the pictures I took of some pirates at Busch Gardens. I wish I had all those skeletons... they wouldn't be pirates anymore I can tell you that. Nothing against anyone who uses a pirate theme, I like looking at them, but I just don't want to do one. At least not right now anyway.

Tree Ghosts at Howl -O-Scream

These were a few of the tree ghosts I saw at Howl-O-Scream in Williamsburg over this past weekend. Some of these were lit up at night and really looked good then, but unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of that. They were everywhere and made me wish that I had some big trees in my yard to hang some from.

Howl-O-Scream

I probably won't be posting anything for a couple of days because we are going to the Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA this weekend. It's supposed to rain all weekend also, so hopefully we'll get to see some stuff anyway. The rain might be a good thing, maybe it won't be so crowded. I'll post some pictures when we get back if we have any good ones.
Howl-O-Scream Website
Flickr Link to a Bunch of Howl-O-Scream Pictures