Fun Halloween Ideas!

So I picked up this pamphlet the other day at my local Macey's grocery store, entitled:

Halloween Tricks and Treats with....

Penguin Brand

Dry Ice

I thought I would share some with you!

So according to the pamphlet penguin dry ice..."adds the perfect touch to an eerie Halloween party...you can change the atmosphere from uninspired to spine-chilling." Doesn't is sound awesome?

Idea # 1 - The Witches Brew

1.First off you must dress as a dreadful witch in order for this idea to be effective.

2. Fill a plastic cauldron with .5 gallons of grape juice, 1 can pineapple juice, and .5 gallons of EXTRA PULPY orange juice.

3. Stir mixture together with a broom (preferably one that belongs to a witch)

4. Use some tongs to add small pieces of PBDI to the mixture.

5. Chant or perform some sort of malicious curse

6. Your witches' brew is now ready to serve to unsuspecting victims.

7. For little extra flavor, add some worms, real or gummy, it's all up to you.

8. If even further improvement of flavor is required, alcohol, in any form may be added.

9. Glow sticks may also be added, but not consumed.

Idea #2 - The Wizards Portion (Invite Harry over)

1. Different because a man makes it.

2. One gallon of water into a large container.

3. Followed by two cups of sugar.

4. One ounce of root beer extract.

5. Dissolve sugar, by stirring with magic wand, or wooden spoon. Whichever you prefer.

6. Add PBDI.

7. Mixture will become magically bubbly, serve.

Idea # 3 - Ghostly Fog - idea does not include instructions for making real ghosts.

1. If in need of an atmosphere of mystery, and fright, read on.

2. Hot water in a crockpot, of large proportions

3. Turn crock pot on, or keep warm over fire, or burning stake.

4. Add PBDI to create fog of the ghostly kind.

5. Serve refreshments and food.

6. For real fog, see weather service.

Idea # 4 - Smoking Pumpkin and Spooky Graveyard

1. Add PBDI to a small container with hot water.

2. Place inside a carved pumpkin

3. Place PBDI to a pan, add hot water

4. Place behind tombstones

5. Dead bodies and coffins are not included.

Four fun ways to use dry ice. All of which sound quite terrifying. Spooky....

Mess

I know my blog is a mess right now, but there are only two days until Halloween, and then I promise I will fix it.

And then you will be able to read it once again.

Then and Now

Then...

And now...

Happy Anniversary to us!!

October 28, 2005.

I think we still look pretty good!

Congrats to my brother and Hollie, who got married in October! Its a great month. The last two pics were taken at their wedding. Unfortunately we didn't make it home with any pictures of the bride and groom. There are, however, quite a few pictures of Tanner in his tux. Hmmm...strange.

School

Andrew told me this evening that I could quit school if I could find five people who agree with me, that I should.

Top 5 reasons I should no longer go to school:

1). Seven years is a long time

2). I am not getting smarter. I do believe my intelligence has plateaued.

3). It is not making me any money now, nor will it in the future. A history degree is good for nothing.

4). There is no where to park.

5). The world is going to end in 2012. So that's a whole year, I will have to enjoy my piece of paper on the wall.

I'm going for six...

6). Did I mention I have to take 4 semesters of a foreign language?

So I need five people to agree and I am set. Thanks for helping me decide my future.

2nd Annual Pumpkin Decorating

Remember the pumpkin from last year titled:

Bubonic Rat Pumpkin

It raised money for United Way through a silent auction at work.

It's a beauty.

Aren't those rats terrifying?

Well this year I went for something a little different:

This one is titled:

Rotting Corpse Flower Pumpkin

Complete with sparkles and spider webs.

However this pumpkin is presently residing at work, not participating in the silent auction. Due to the fact that I missed the deadline. There were some major communication issues between myself and the main office. So they don't get my pumpkin this year. Their loss. Obviously.

Oh...Say can You See...

Oh Fort McHenry! Who knows what happened at Fort McHenry? Maybe this picture below will give you some clues...

Times up! Pencils down. Fort McHenry, located in Maryland was the sight were Francis Scott Key penned the words that would become our national anthem. We happened to go to Fort McHenry on the one day a year that admission was free!! Score.

After seeing that famous star spangled banner in the American History Museum, it was very gratifying to come full circle with the trip to Fort McHenry.

O'er the ramparts we watched....

I am watching o'er some ramparts.

And I just want to say that after getting into an argument with Andrew over what "ramparts" are I emerged victorious! Ha ha! I would like to thank google, wikipedia and the iphone for backing me up. Of course as a history major I would know what ramparts are.... to be honest I thought everyone did....I am not sure why Andrew didn't....

Needless to say I do find the history behind the Star Spangled Banner to be very interesting, and the Fort did a great job bringing that history to life. That's coming from a girl who doesn't even like American history, so that's saying a lot.

Props to Andrew for taking some really great pics.

We heart Pa

Hey, remember back in July when we lived in DC? It seems like such a long time ago. Whilst there we often took day trips to Pennsylvania. We decided to brush up on our civil war history and head out to Gettysburg. Actually I didn't really need to brush up since I am now officially a history major and had just taken and passed, American history from 1870. Oh no wait, that wouldn't have covered the civil war. Lucky however I had also just taken American History to 1870...so that pretty much covered all the civil war bases. Needless to say I totally know way more than Andrew.

So here we have a fence, and a road.

this is not necessarily an important fence or road, but

I really enjoy old fences. So there you go.

This is a picture of the valley of death, and in the left hand corner to can see the rocks of what is awesomely referred to as the Devil's casket. Okay, just kidding I made that up. But those rocks were called the devil's something....cauldron perhaps? Or the Devil's labyrinth. I can't remember but any of those names would give you the general idea. So when you go to Gettysburg, this is what you do. Drive to the visitor's center. Purchase a CD tour at the museum store. Or you can pay extra to purchase an actually civil war soldier (tour guide) to ride around in your car with you. You can guess which one we did.

Here we have a reinactor now. He looks like he is having great time. And I was very appreciative of this display of living history.

More living history. Me being dead on a stone wall where other civil war soldiers could have possibly fallen. Inappropriate? Probably. But the damage has already been done, so I am putting the damming photo on our blog. Plus it was really good practice for when I graduate with a history degree and have to find a job being a historical actress myself. So technically it was kinda like...homework.

Before we move on I just want to point out that any lack of knowledge of American history on my part is not a direct reflection on the quality of education I am receiving. It is more of a reflection on the fact that I don't really like American history, and therefore choose not to waste my precious brain space remembering it. I didn't say I don't like America, I just said I don't care about its history. It's personal preference.

On to something that I do like; Amish people.

We will call this little guy Moses Thomas Ezekiel.

On another weekend we took a day trip to one of the greatest places in America:

Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

Being the mature adults that Andrew and I are, there were, of course, no inappropriate jokes whatsoever. And if you believe that then you will probably also believe that there are actually giant living gingerbread men running around Lancaster county.

Oh wait! There are!

Andrew thought this guy was hilarious...I am not sure what he has to do with the peaceful loving people of the Amish. I mostly thought he was a little creepy. And thanks Andrew for making me take a picture with him.

So if you are hanging out in Intercourse, and you get tired of eating homemade jam and pretzels, and staring at the buggies when they come into town. There is something to remind you that there are still people in the world who believe in violence and having lots of weapons.

That's right! There in downtown Intercourse, is the:

American Military Edge Weaponry Museum.

Of course we had to check it out.

We support the small museum.

So basically there were lots of knives.

Edged weapons.

Overall we love Pennsylvania. But as Andrew said many times last times last night, he hates the Steelers. I am not exactly sure why he hates the blue-collar workers that helped build the nation. Maybe he feels the same why I do about American history.....