getting into the Halloween spirit

Last night we went to Fright Town at the Rose Quarter in Portland. It was a 3-haunted-houses-in-1 set up. For 15 dollars you go to three haunted houses within the Memorial Coliseum, and all three are quite different. First there is a traditional haunted house which was so-so. It had some strong points, but was not nearly as cool as the one I went to with Ba and Alexei in SLC. The other two were quite a bit more creative and interesting. One was called the chop-shop and was fashioned after a creepy gas station/ auto-body shop. It was more of a set kind of thing with less of a focus on pop-out scares and more emphasis on the gruesome, apocalyptic sets they had created within it. The people in there to scare the visitors had insane tetsuo the ironman reminiscent costumes. Visually it was very cool and I enjoyed it a lot. The last one was the best, it was something like a museum of horrors and they also had a lot of really really bizarre set designs. It was kind of artsy in its horror, and I thought that was a refreshing take on the haunted house thing.
I miss those days when Seth and I (and sometimes Dave) put together the haunted forest walk for 3 consecutive years thru-out middle school. We used to make maybe 15-20 dollars of profit each year from that. Friends from school, relatives and neighborhood families would come to our haunted forest walk each year. Seth and I put that stuff together from scratch (and sometimes Dave).
One day it would be awesome to be involved with something like that again, but it would be a huge investment of time, money, and resources. I would hope to actually make a bit more profit of course, and actually have the time and help to make something like that possible.
The haunted houses we went to last night were not really scary, but interesting to experience. The one I went to in Salt Lake was insane and lasted for something like half an hour. That one was much more grandiose and had better scares. My best memory of it is when Alexei freaked out and yelled "fuck" right in this ghoul guy's face.