With this being our first year, I didn't know what to expect.
I soon realized that we had a hit on our hands. 2 weekends and we
averaged 200 children per weekend. "Musical Misfits" was the name of the
band. They air-guitared and lip-synced to songs like the "Monster Mash" and
"Ghostbusters" and were a big hit. We had 13 different characters in
the "Whispering Woods" and the kids loved every one of them. Along with
a fortune teller, hayride, snacks, facepainting, blow-up basketball court, and
some help from the Girl Scouts it made
our first year a big success.
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| Entrance to the "Whispering Woods" | I was surprised that no one tried to climb Rapunzel's hair | Doesn't look like much from here, does it? | Frankenstein playing the floating skulls | Now presenting the "Musical Misfits" |
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| Who knew that the wolfman could play cello | "Putting on the Ritz" like you've never seen it before | Either the vampiress is doing the robot or the wolfman is trying to fly... I'm not sure which | If memory serves, everyone that knew how to do "The Time Warp" that afternoon was doing it at this point | Seeing this creature doing the moonwalk was priceless |
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| Synchronized dancing... or something like that | Michael Jackson would have been proud | A match made in heaven | Looking for Darth Vader | Deep in the woods we found a butterfly princess |
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| The butterfly princess doing... | ...whatever butterfly princesses do best | Who doesn't love a good Dr. Seuss character? | At the end of the trail sits... | ...the Great Pumpkin |
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| Rip Van Winkle, doing what he does best... literally I think | The scarecrow begging someone to cut him loose from his perch | Thank you little girl... I'm forever in your debt | The Tinman and Dorothy... he looks a little stiff to me | What forest is complete without Winnie the Pooh? |
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| Alice in Wonderland, and the Queen of Hearts | There must be a wolf in the forest... Little Red Ridinghood is hiding behind a tree | I was so busy that I forgot to make a tent for the fortune teller (sorry Pam) | At least by the second weekend I was able to come up with a pup tent for her (I'll make it up to you next year) | I thought it was cute anyway |
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| Frankenstein pointing the way to the entrance | Fishing for some bonefish | I knew I would get some use out of this old rocking horse somewhere down the road | Hmmm... what's in the outhouse? | Nothing, but a man being sucked down the toilet |
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| Our face painting experts | And what's "Halloween Hallows" without snacks? | The graveyard | How come my candy isn't this big? | Our first blow-up toy... still don't know why they didn't send a moonwalk |
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