Good Times

So Friday night some of the members from our RIPS group headed north to Mount Carroll to visit the Raven's Grin Haunted House. It is a year round haunted house that is supposedly actually haunted. During peak season (October) if functions like a normal haunted house with a big staff for scaring a large number of participants. But since we went in Sept it was manned by 3 workers. The owner is an artist who made everything that is in the house. It was amazing!!! His style is completely different from my own as is him taste, but I still have a lot of respect for the man and his work. He starts the tour out in the front room. It was a good 20 minutes or more that we sat there. He had some hokey things that gave some of us a scare. But the man was freaking hilarious!!! Some of the stuff he said was great! They gear the tours according to the audience so it can be adjusted if children are there, but since it was all adults there was some raunchy humor in the mix as well!


After the owner was done with us we had a tour guide take us through explaining history of the house, stories from past participant, employees and even his own experiences. Some rooms were creepy, others fun and i can't forget to mention the slides!!! Yes folks there were slides at this place! The first one wasn't too bad. It was short and sweet and you could tell where the ending was. The second however was interesting! Of course no one else would volunteer to go first so I stepped up to the plate! You get wrapped like a burrito in a blanket and padding. Why you may ask?! Well they pretty much pull a lever and you drop more or less straight down into a dark hole!!! Pitch black dropping down an unfamiliar slide which flings you this way and that was pretty exciting. I'm not one for theme park rides, especially roller coaster. The drop was very much like that first big hill you go flying down! Once you get to the bottom of the slide another worker tells you to scooch forward because the slide broke and you have another 30 ft to go down. Not to mention he told us he hoped we could swim because we were going to land in water. All a gimmick. But since i was so brave I got to hide in a coffin and scare all the others as they finished the slide and rounded the corner. I got a couple of them pretty well!

Like I said although it wasn't a scary haunted house, it was a lot of fun! We all had a great trip... and I know my car load even had fun on the drive!! :)