Sunday, November 1, 2009

Happy Halloween! Disneyland & Knott's Scary Farm


Rather than dressing up this year (a first in 7 years!!), we went to Knott's Scary Farm and Disneyland. Knott's Scary Farm wasn't so scary, rather the fun was more in hanging out with friends and going on the rides! Here are some pictures!


Both Disneyland and California Adventures had some attractive Halloween decorations.



Wouldn't be a Halloween experience without riding on Tower of Terror, right? There wasn't much Halloween decorations, but I suppose the attraction itself screams Halloween!


Called "Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy", the attraction went through a transformation where you take a journey through a creepy cosmo, including special effects ghosts in space and new attraction audio. During the night, they project Halloween-themed color schemes onto the dome while playing creepy, eerie music. It was a new form of entertainment to watch as we waited over 75 minutes!! Below, enjoy the many faces of the possessed attraction (a few from the 40+ dome photos I took!)!


As usual, they had the Halloween-Christmas collision at the Haunted Mansion Holiday with Nightmare Before Christmas decorations. By far, this is my favorite time of the year to go on this attraction....they should always keep it this way! The Halloween Screams fireworks show was really great too! The usual fireworks show is replaced, hosted by Jack Skellington (from Nightmare Before Christmas), his skull appears on an enormous inflated balloon just above the Sleeping Beauty Castle. Several other villians appear on the balloon, along with ghosts floating up from the castle and the castle glows in a haunting green aura for a short time afterwards.


Although there was no dressing up this year, it was a fun month! Let's see what costume we end up in next year!