Alas, poor router. We hardly knew ye.

The home router died yesterday and took our internet connectivity with it. This is outstanding timing what with my first day of on-line school being today. I guess I will be doing school work at work work. The new router should arrive tomorrow (oh please oh please oh please).

Haunting Report: Nightmares from Elmridge, Bennett's Curse, and Terror After Dark

Nightmares from Elmridge
Cheesy, and not just because it was in the basement of the Arbutus Domino's Pizza. Props, actors, and "story" were okay. psalite was nibbled to death by ducks a giant head person in a top hat. Weird. The deranged pig people and toothy clowns went after the tweens (thank God). The best part was the dark hallway with hands (both real and rubber) that grabbed at us. Some shrieking ensued.

Bennett's Curse
The directions said this attraction was located at Arundel Mills and we looped the mall three times before finding a security officer who could send us on our correct way. The attraction featured two "houses": "House of the Vampyres" and "The Sanctuary of Insanity". Vampyre House was full of animatronics, strobes, gorgeous gothic architecture, and people in black robes jumping out at us. I think I'm getting jaded because I found the attraction only okay. Oh sure, I jumped when spooked, but there was a lot of uninteresting dead space in this one. We thought we'd accidentally gotten stuck behind the attraction one time, but that was the path to the next vignette. Hm.

( This is getting long. )

Terror After Dark
After a disappointing dinner, we four RACED back to Sterling to visit the three haunts of the Terror After Dark attraction outside Dulles Town Center and arrived with about twenty minutes to spare. This attraction houses "Bloodstone Manor", "Darkmare", and Cell Block 13 Death Row". We, of course, purchased tickets for all three.

( A breakdown of the three houses. )

In order of enjoyment, Terror After Dark: Darkmare, TAD: Bloodstone, Bennett's Curse: Sanctuary of Insanity, BC: House of the Vampyres, Nightmare from Elmridge, and TAD: Cell Block 13. Like pirategirleee, I think that Darkwood Manor in Luray is my favorite haunt thus far; I wish it weren't so far away!

Oh hey

Hubbyfink somehow resurrected the router -- which he really should have renamed Zombie, but didn't -- and we're back in business. Whoo hoo! And because I didn't think I'd have intarwebs tonight, I'm not ahead of the game schoolwise because I did tonight's homework at work and tomorrow's homework tonight. Yea, verily.