22 Oct California’s Great America Halloween Hunt

I did something extremely American yesterday night.

We’ve all started to feel the halloween frenzy in the air during the last couple of weeks. Safeways and Whole Foods filled with pumpkins. Starbucks beloved spicy pumpkin lattes (I absolutely love them, but try not to consume more than a few per week). The decorations beginning to graze doors and windows of the houses I pass each morning with the MUNI. It’s all there.

And it is all so American. I didn’t have a clue that it was going to be this big.

(And I’ve yet to find a costume. With six days left ’til the big party I’m going to. Pressure. But that’s another story.)

So, anyway, what’s better than starting off this Halloween week of partying and fun than to gather a couple of great friends, take the car out of the garage, and drive south to Santa Clara (just north of San Jose) and enter a world of amusement? No, there’s nothing better than that. We went to California’s Great America (which is an amusement park, if you didn’t know. I didn’t so it’s perfectly understandable).

AND. They had a halloween hunt!

People were dressed out as zombies, characters very Nightmare-before-christmas-or-Tim-Burton-looking, Frankensteins, monsters, dolls and toys. They had crazy mazes like the Haunted House and Toy Store that kept you screaming and laughing all the way through them. They had almost all attractions open and I rode my first big roller coasters ever. Gee, I love them. They’re great.

I had an awesome night.

Despite the rain. The weather actually made it feel more authentic. Foggy and chilly and rainy, just perfect weather for halloween.

Here’s the link. I highly suggest checking it out. And if you’ve got time, please go. It’s going to supply you with the right halloween feeling if you haven’t got it yet. I guarantee it.