Major Build Session On Sept 13 & 14!

Ok -- all the walls are up!! Now it's time to start sheeting!! Thanks to Nick, Luis, Dani, Zach, Maggie, Charlie, Steve, and Russ for working on the haunt this weekend. Also thanks to Kerry and Megan for bringing over lunch and brownies for all the workers!! We had walking tacos, brownies, and lemonade. YUM!! We got a LOT done and are now ready to start the sheeting and decorating process.

Scene Setters Are Here!!

The Fed Ex man and the UPS Man came last week and brought all my Scene Setters for the Christmas and Easter room and also for the spider and Vampire rooms!! Plus I got my Leprechaun and Santa costumes and an Uncle Sam costume for the 4th of July room.

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and I bought a weird little bone fence from Fright Catalog ........

DO NOT ENTER!

Steve and I have been working in the entry area. We cleared out the office yesterday and pulled up the carpet. Today we started sheeting and took a couple loads of scary stuff down to the barn. I put up the big banner on the front fence today and we plugged in a big pumpkin blow up and put that out in the front by the driveway to attract attention. Slowly but surely ........ It's coming together!!

Elf Ears are Here!!

I ordered 3 sets of "Elf Ears" for our little Wicked Leprechauns and they came today!! Woohoo! They look really cool .... and they fit right over your ears really well. :o)

2008 "THE DRAGONS TAKE A HOLIDAY"

THE DRAGONS AND ALL THEIR EVIL COUNTERPARTS ARE BACK AND NOW THEY ARE TAKING OVER OUR HOLIDAYS -- CHRISTMAS, ST PATRICKS DAY, EASTER, THANKSGIVING, and MANY MORE!!!

WHAT NEW WAYS HAVE THE DRAGONS COME UP WITH TO TERRORIZE THEIR VICTIMS? ARE THEY PLANNING ON RUINING ALL THE HOLIDAYS FOR THE CHILDREN?

WILL THERE EVER BE A WAY TO STOP THEM ??

HOW MANY PEETALITIES WILL THERE BE THIS YEAR IN 2008?? HAVE THEY REALLY TURNED SANTA, LEPRECHAUNS, AND THE EASTER BUNNY INTO EVIL CREATURES?

Come join us again for the 2008 Halloween season and walk through "The Dragon's Eye Haunted Barn". Pass through the portal of darkness and explore what remains in castle Reynstone's dungeon.......if you dare. Will there ever be any hope for the community of Hampton to eventually destroy this evil once and for all? Tune in later to see what happens....!!

What horror awaits those that dare enter this place of darkness and death?????

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Have YOU ever seen a REAL DRAGON??

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www.dragons-eye.com

...and even more building

The building continued on Sunday, Sept 7th. Nick, Trevor, and Luis came over with Steve and the boys got all the wood out of storage and lined them up against the walls. They did that so quick that we had time to start putting up the main beams. By 6:00pm we had almost all the main beams in place and had started on some of the crossbeams. Plus they also got the mattress buried in the "Crazy Monkey/Gorilla" room.

Building Begins!!

On Sept 6th we had Matt from Wyoming come out to help us prep the arena and the barn for building. He tells us that his parents used to participate in a haunted house back at his hometown in Wyoming. So he's not new to the process of building something of this magnitude. The only difference is that they start 3-4 months BEFORE the event. We have 30 days.

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I spend the afternoon dragging the arena and getting the footing broken up and prepped for the boards. Matt and Dani started sheeting the perimeter of the arena. When that was all done we started taking off stall doors in the entry way and cobbing and sweeping. Yes .... I know .... spiderwebs are good for a haunted barn .... but not real ones. I HATE spiders. I can handle fake cobwebs but not real ones. The real ones gotta go. .....and then don't you hate when you're cobbing and trying to stay out from underneath the cobber so the spiders don't fall onto your head .... but then they always do fall on you and that is SO NOT RIGHT!!! EEEEWWWWW!