Haunted Farm, trains and idiots

I went with Gina and Kent tonight to the Haunted Farm. We took Alex and his friend Casey along. It's located 10 miles south of Moorhead, so it was a haul. We turned onto the gravel road and started seeing cars parked along the side. We decided to pull over and join the mindless minions in the walk. It was about a quarter of a mile trek, including a railroad crossing.
It was a chilly night, but we were dressed for it, so we were doing ok.

After forking over $12 per person, we were escorted into a farm house. Up the stairs and through a maze of shoddily constructed "walls" covered with garbage bags, our shoe laces glowing brilliantly (and my teeth too, I assume) due to the mass of black lights. Nothing scary there. Down the stairs and out the other door, we followed the path to the machine shed.

That's where it actually got interesting. We were herded through cattle panel stanchions to be split into groups of 10 or so. We got a tour guide named "Carla" (spooky, huh?) and were led through the woods and various outbuildings. The thing about haunted places these days is that they try to use "hi tech" things to enhance the scare, but it doesn't work. Nothing beats a real person with a real chainsaw, that's all. Every time I heard the whssshhh of air rushing through an air hose, I knew that something would shortly be popping up in my face; really took the fun and surprise out of it. There were actual people out there in the woods, but in my opinion, not nearly enough.

We spent a little over an hour out there, and decided to head back. We headed back down the gravel road towards the location of the KIA. We soon realized that we couldn't get there, there was a train stopped on the track blocking the road.

why?

This was the best part of the night, by far! Turns out some idiot coming out to the Haunted Farm parked his vehicle ON THE TRACKS. Maybe he thought the tracks were part of the Farm and therefore fake.... Maybe he didn't see the tracks (How could you NOT??)

Or, my theory, Maybe he was just an idiot.

the train hit the car, of course. It must have happened not too long before we got there, we were about the second group walking up the road. We waited a good 15 minutes before they cleared the train to get moving again. The whole time, other groups were walking up whining about/wondering what the hold up was. It was fun to tell them. I was actually wishing one of the groups would belong to the mangled metal being removed from the cow catcher. That was a bummer actually, we couldn't see the remains of the vehicle, it went quite a ways with the train. I would have loved to hang around and wait, just to see the look on Idiot's face when he comes walking up "Dude, where's my car?"

definitely a fun evening. Tomorrow won't be fun though. I have homework to do and Student Senate minutes to type. I have to get Emma in to her hockey gear, find out what needs replacing, and go buy that. I'm quickly running out of money. The budget took a couple of unexpected hits this payday, the quarterly garbage bill (I always manage to forget when that's coming up!), the portion of the Dentist bill not covered by military insurance, the kids' lunch accounts all hitting zero at the same time.
I also need to do a house clean and laundry day to cover us for the week.
I don't have class Monday until 1pm, so that will help, and I don't have class at all Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I am leaving Thursday morning for Brainerd for 4 days with my fellow Senate Executive Board members for G.A. (General Assembly, statewide thing). We are staying in a nice resort, so I'm assuming they will have internet, and I have a cord if I do need to plug in to use my laptop in the room. Hopefully I will be able to talk to JP during my time there. I will be sharing a room with the Treasurer, her name is April, she's very nice.

It's after midnight, I should be getting to bed, but I think I'm too wired now. Maybe I will play solitaire for a bit on Pogo, that usually makes me nod off.