Weekend Recap -- Movies and Haunted Hay Rides

[kybearfuzz]

The weekend was a good one! Saturday afternoon I grabbed a Mexican lunch with Tim and hung out at his place for a bit before heading over to the Cincinnati Movie Bears outing to see Where the Wild Things Are in Newport.

I thought the movie visually captured what I could recall of the book, but the story left me ... well... bored. I think there is only so much interpretation that you can do with a dozen or so pages of material from the children's book. To stretch it out to an hour and a half was asking alot. The kids around me seemed a bit unimpressed with it, but I think it appeals a lot to some adults who grew up with the book in hand.

After the movie, we grabbed dinner at the newly re-opened Hamburger Mary's, which I love. The food is hit-or-miss (just like the old Mary's), but I love the atmosphere and have missed it.

After dinner, chrisglass, cubtharsis and I drove to the wilds of Kentucky to take a haunted hay ride. One of Chris' friends was in the "show" of it. We paid the extra $5 to move to the VIP line and rode a very cold ride into the dark. Living scarecrows in the cornfield, serial killers on the path, a barn full of movie-based horrors, a pursuing tractor, and a visit from a headless horseman made for a great ride. Yeah, one of the scarecrows got me screaming like a little girl (shut up!). I snagged many photos with my iPhone, but none really turned out. This shadowy shot of our Chris was the best of the bunch, but I think he managed to snag better with his camera.

I love Halloween!