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Halloween Haunt Saturday

31/10/2016

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With three additional people squeezed into our 1 bedroom apartment over Halloween weekend - visitors, zombies, and theme park rides were the most prominent parts of our most recent Something Saturday!
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This past weekend we had our fair share of visitors; Emily, Peter and Maria stayed in our apartment with us while, unfortunately, we only managed to see Meghan and Garrett once during their time in Toronto.

On Saturday, we headed out for brunch with our house guests and then made our way to Nathan Phillips Square to see the "undead army" which only ended up being two people when we were there. L.O.L. No, seriously... After the failed zombie walk, we headed to Steam Whistle Brewery. While we were patiently waiting for our tour time to roll around, we jumped on our first ride of the day: the $3.50 "live steam miniature railway" around Roundhouse Park. Worth every penny.

We then took a quick ferry ride to the Toronto Islands, and zoomed back to the apartment in time to play half a game before we headed off to Halloween Haunt, our main event of the day! Halloween Haunt is Canada's Wonderland's annual Halloween-themed event that runs every weekend in October and has been going on for over 10 years.
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We arrived just before 8 pm, and the place was extremely busy. We waited in a crowd of people for quite a while before we even made it into the park. Once we made it in, we realized how serious this Halloween Haunt really was. In addition to the nine Halloween mazes and five "Skeleton Key" special attractions, there were countless people in costume lurking around the park being creepy and scaring everyone who walked by. 

During our visit, we opted for the Fright Lane passes which allowed us to skip the regular lines for most of the haunted attractions. It wasn't cheap - we ended up paying ~$100 each in total - but it was absolutely worth it. Some of the line ups would have taken us hours to get through otherwise. Literally.
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Planning our route through the haunted attractions
For some reason, Elizabeth (and a couple of others) hadn't really thought about what a haunted theme park would be like, so weren't that keen on all of the haunted houses in the beginning. But by the end of it, we had all picked our favourites and got less and less creeped out by people whispering in our ears and appearing out of nowhere. For future reference, our favourite haunted mazes were The Ruins, Louisiana Scream, and Sci-Fi House. The production value was impressive.

Because of our passes, we managed to visit 6/9 Haunted Mazes and 2/5 Sketelon Key Activities (special activities for Fright Lane pass holders), in addition to 3 other thrill rides. Pretty impressive for less than 4 hours at such a busy place, and it would have been absolutely impossible otherwise.

We had a fun, yet spooky, time at Halloween Haunt. Here are some more photos of our time at the park:

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Curious what we're done for past Halloweens? Well last year, WE MOVED TO TORONTO! The year before that, we went orienteering for Halloween treats and in 2013 we went to a film festival and dressed up for Mardi Gras on George Street. 
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