haunted pie, moonlit ice cream, and family firedrills.
it's a dark night - the kind that is only illuminated by the blue moon sitting solitary over the road. the air is frigid, and it's the kind of night where going out without mittens will make your hands hurt.
in a car, five people who are searching for ghosts. mapquest has promised these five that it will only take seven minutes to reach their destination.
but they're not the best at following directions - these five ghost hunters. so, a few wrong turns and a few yelling fits later, they eventually find themselves at their destination: buckhout street in white plains, new york.
buckhout street is the place where three witches were hanged - and three homocides were committed in the 1600's -- and supposedly, three x's on the road mark a spot where cars "stall, and do 'weird things'". will our five come out alive?
as they travel down the road, they search through the darkness for spirits.
but actually, it's just a bunch of mansions. nice ones, that don't seem to be haunted at all.
if there are ghosts here - they are well fed, well dressed ghosts, who have hot tubs and most likely throw themselves lavish parties instead of bothering five kids in a car.
so the five continue down the road - and eventually it does get a bit creepy. it's a winding, wooded road ... the kind that can only fit one car. they are in that one car.
but ghosts - no one sees any ghosts.
they continue down this deserted road... at first it gets scarier, but then brighter. they look around - and somehow, they find that they are actually just in white plains, near the train station. the ghosts, if there were any, did not come out that night.
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anyway - that's what i did tonight... the five where me, tara, amanda, evan, and garret... we did get quite lost but did eventually find the road we were looking for and we did not find any ghosts... which is too bad, because... i think that the ghosts would have been lucky to have known us. maybe we would have invited them to our party...
which consisted of apple pie (leftover from the pie in the face film) and m&m ice cream ... and us coming to the realization that we really are monique's creepy family ... as we each walked out into the hall to embarrass her and offer pie and ice cream.
alright, so we finish the pie/ice cream party - and now it is time for our next adventure...
the hut in the woods! ... i was expecting a tree house, but the hut that we came to was much more exciting than a tree house would have been. now, it was quite dark out, so i'm not sure what it actually looks like - but it reminded me of a wigwam or something. in the middle of the woods! ... and walking there, in the snow, in the freezing cold -- even though i thought i was going to die a few times (from falling, not from ghosts!) ... was quite fun.
and then we came home to a fire drill, and talked about everyone's night ... and by everyone i mean, those of us who had been temporarily separated from the group...
:o) to you, monique.
ah yes, and there was another fire drill about twenty minutes ago... "you are in danger and you do need to evacuate the building. put some clothes on."
hopefully, no more fires tonight...
(but, monique - "we didn't start the fire...")
goodnight!!!