Yesterday we had our first ever parade in Shell Rock during their Shell Rock Days celebration. It was great! We had our big white truck with a corpse on the roof along with our casket in the bed of the truck and we had a trailer pulled behind with "Finger Food" in her bed. The whole thing went great! We threw out candy, flavor ices, and cups from Ziggy's Domino's Pizza that had fliers about our haunt. I dressed up as my character, Lou Natic, and ran around. For the most part I played "good guy" Lou but there were a couple older kids that I had some fun with!
The whole thing went great, but MAN! am I glad it's over! I've been getting ready for the parade the last two weeks and it's just nice to know it's over! However, while we were waiting for the parade to start, a woman came up to me (I'm in full costume mind you) and handed me a flier and said "You guys need to come to this!" The flier was about Janseville Days (Janesville is a town about a 5 min drive away) and there was a list of events. She pointed out the parade which is going to take place on the 26th of July and said "We'd love to have you there! The kids will love it!" So I of course agreed and told her we'd be there!
Also, in two weeks we have the Heritage Days parade here in Waverly! So we are going to be getting a ton of much needed exposer for this year's haunt!
I would also like to share some information about our 2008 dates of operation. We will be open the weekends of the 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st of October. That's a total of eight nights (More than ever before!) and we are going to have two kids days! Our kids days will be on Saturday the 18th and Saturday the 25th from 3:00pm to 6:00pm. Last year our kids day went over amazingly so we decided that this year we were going to have two. This way, it will give more people the opportunity to come the second night if they couldn't the first.
Also, I want to make sure people realize that the haunted house isn't a little kid thing anymore (Except on our kids days obviously) But we have had a lot of parents bringing their 5, 6, 7 year old kids through. And although that is fine, we feel as though the people don't realize that the haunted house isn't intended for smaller children. So this year we plan on putting a PG-13 rating on the haunt. We will place a PG-13 logo outside the haunt as well as our posters we are going to be putting up throughout town.
Anyways, to tell you more about our kids days. We don't have it all planned out at the moment. But we are planning on having Nestle's hot coco served along with cookies provided by the local bakery. We also are planning on having balloon animals made as well as handing out some other goodies. There is talk of having pumpkin carving, but we are still up in the air about it. We will provide more information about our kids days as soon as we get everything figured out.
That's all I have for now! Now that most of our planning for our 2008 haunt is done, we will soon be starting on construction! If you are interested in helping us out please contact me, Zach Wiechman, at (319) 269 9635 or via e-mail at frontyardfright@msn.com any help is a lot of help!
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