Playing Catchup

Since this is my first real blog post since June, we're playing a bit of catchup!

The most significant development since then is the purchase of our house! We closed on this place in September and moved in during the hurricane... because of the hurricane really. It's a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, 1400+sq.ft. bi-level with a great backyard. The pups love having the room and we love not throwing our money away every month! It has required a bit of work, but we got the place for a steal so it's worth it!



We've also had another foster dog since then. His name is Simon and he's a standard poodle puppy! As of this moment his is on a home trial with prospective new owners. We should know by 10/30 whether or not they are going to keep him. He's a good pup but very energetic!



And finally... I am once again unemployed. We got new management at work and I went from maybe being promoted to getting fired in 2 weeks. There are a lot of words for the type of chick that the new manager is.... but I will spare you.

Since I have nothing better to do at this point, I'm going to make a real effort to post more often. We'll see though!

Review: "Trail of Fears" in Hilliard

I won some tickets to "Trail of Fears" in a radio contest recently. Since we were in the area, Eric & I decided to go check it out. Admission for this attraction is $10 per person.

Our first impression came from their website.... or should I say myspace page. It reads like a middle schooler wrote it and it's very poorly laid out. The next impression came from the horribly spray painted signs pointing the way on the roads near by. By now you can probably tell where this is going.

Once we got there, the parking lot was almost empty. I have pretty low expectations at this point, but it was free so hey. We walked through the barn full of country knick-knacks for sale and jumped on the hayride back to the "haunted forest." They broke us into smaller groups of 6-8 people and started us through.

The trail itself is heavily fogged and poorly lit which aren't necessarily bad things. Our "tour guide" followed in the back for some reason which just confused us most of the time. The other guy following just kept yelling stupid stuff like "What is that?!?" trying to psych us out. Some of the costumes weren't bad and the performance of the Texas Chainsaw crew was decent, but the rest left a lot to be desired. I spend most of the time laughing!

The worst part was definitely the "maze" though. It was fogged so much that it was hard to breathe and the massive amounts of strobe lights gave me a headache. The fog also gave someone in our group an asthma attack.

All in all we didn't pay for it so I can't complain. I definitely wouldn't pay for it though!