Hello! Been fairly busy lately which has been good. A few weeks ago I got to go to an amusement park normally called Carowinds, but on weekend nights they decked it all out with haunted mazes and everything scary and called it Scarowinds. I had a lot of fun, but...I now get sick on rides...and that's no fun. The first thing when we got there we went on a roller coaster called the "Intimidator" (for those of you who have been to Six Flags in MA, it is similar to the Superman (now Bizzaro) roller coaster. So it taked you up 232 ft. and you go down about an 80 degree drop and go around 80 mph on this roller coaster. Love it.
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The Intimidator
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| Shayne, Snoopy, Veronica, myself, woodstock and Andy at Scarowinds |
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| Margaret, Nicole, Me, Veronica, and Kaitlin |
We attempted to go apple and/or pumpkin picking, but it turned out it was too late for either. So we just spent some time walking around Niven's Apple Farm
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| Nicole, me Liz and Veronica on a tractor at the farm! |
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| Veronica, Margaret and I enjoying our walk in a park (obviously we're taking a break from the walk) |
Had a pretty laid back weekend last weekend, didn't do much, enjoyed the beautiful South Carolina fall weather. Veronica and I attempted to drive to the mountains to be leaf peepers, but as we were getting to the pretty part of the mountains, my car decided to not go 70mph anymore but decides it won't go anymore than 50mph, smell awful, and sound awful. So we were about 5 or 10 miles from the next exit, but I decided to turn around then cause who knows what the heck the car was going to decide to do. It made it back, a week later its still running, should probs get it checked out but...well..lets face it, I'm lazy and don't want to know the diagnosis.
This past weekend was the weekend to celebrate Halloween! We started by volunteering at a local Zombie Crawl. Don't know if I have talked about the Artist in Residence(AIR) program here in Spartanburg, but there are 4 artists who are given a place to live and room to work on their art, and they are here for a year to work with the community and introduce and promote art. So we've become friendly with the 3 current AIRs and they were the ones putting on the Zombie Crawl so we thought it would be nice to help them out a little bit. I had gone in earlier on Friday to attempt to help them set up (I'm not all that creative, but can follow directions). Later on we went early to become zombies and take our places to help out. People came and paid money to support the AIR program and in return we provided a bloody wardrobe (I was helping at the dressing room area) as well as zombie makeup and a video as to how to become and act like a zombie. After that we (in the cold rain) started to march down to downtown Spartanburg and had about 50 zombies overtake downtown (kinda freaky). We at one point went up to a building that was having a get together (all fancy shmancy) and went up to the glass doors moaning like zombies until the security guard came out and told us we have to leave. We stopped by the local Hub-Bub Bookstore and had someone do a zombie reading. Afterward a dance party was had and it was a good time.
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| Kristi, Shayne, Liz, Veronica and I "attempting" to be zombies... |
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| Zombie crowd listening to the reading at the bookstore downtown |
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| Vistas as zombies! |
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Veronica, Me, Liz, Shayne, Andy and Kristi in front of the fountain downtown
(it is supposed to be pink for breast cancer awareness...just happens to look like
blood for the zombie crawl!) |
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| Me and Veronica's awkward zombie prom picture |
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Zombie attack at a fancy party (note security guard coming out to shoo us away)
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Then on Saturday night we all got together (Vistas) in Greenville at the home of two ex-Vistas and had a potluck and went downtown Greenville to celebrate Halloween! Greenville is about 30-40 mins west of Spartanburg and is a bigger city. We had a bunch of delicious casseroles and cider and desserts before heading downtown
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Me (Rapunzel), Kristi (artist), Nicole (Black Swan), Veronica (TopGun dude), Shayne (Cat), Andy (punk),
Kaitlin, Liz and Margaret (Skittles) at the potluck
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Then we headed downtown to a bar called the Velo Fellow which was really neat. There were 2 dudes playing some sweet 90's tunes and we all just sat around and talked for a while.
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Me, Nicole and Margaret at Velo Fellow
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Then we headed to a place I honestly never found out the name of for some dancing (until 2am...) I've been staying up way too late these past couple weekends, but it's all for the sake of fun! And Sunday I was able to relax in my bed for 90% of the day. Love those days!
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Rapunzel and Skittle dancing!
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| The side affect to dancing for Rapunzel...she lost her hair.. |
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| "Put your hands up!' |
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| Punk and Rapunzel havin a good ole time |
So that's my past couple weekends wrapped up into a blog post. No plans coming up anytime soon. Just a countdown to home! 18 days! Can't wait, I am definitely in need of a break. Well..that's all I've got for now...send me Fbook messages or emails if you want to comment and can't comment on here! Love to hear from people and how much they enjoy my blog! I'm keeping up with it for those of you reading, so let me know who you are! :) <3
