This Wednesday, we took out 7th and 8th graders to the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, annual home of one of the more infamous haunted houses in America. As we walked through stone passages lit by strobe lights or not at all, dozens of actors did their worst to scare the living heck out of us. Other parts of the house included a 3-D section where actors blended into walls and then popped out at you, a corrider with spinning lights that made it difficult to stand, and an "infirmary".
I had never been to a haunted house before, and wasn't sure what to expect. It wasn't until after we got home that we learned that "Terror Behind the Walls" at it was called, was consistently ranked one of the scariest haunted houses in the nation.
The most entertaining part of the evening was definitely seeing the reactions of our older kids throughout the haunted house, and the way that the mutual fun of the night broke down barriers amongst us.
Today is the Harvest Carnival, where we've set up a gymnasium full of games and candy for all the kids. Tomorrow we're leaving for Messiah College, and the fun of chasing giddy 5th graders around an amusement park, a swimming pool, a college campus, and a hotel room.
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