Boo Day

Though she doesn't really know why, Joy has wanted to go to Maine since she was little. To help her check this off her list, we decided to take a little day trip on Saturday, guided by my kind friend Rachel who is a native of Maine. Our first stop was the Portland Head Light. I seriously love lighthouses.

Jake touched the Atlantic Ocean for the first time! He didn't want to swim though.

We tried and tried to get this picture of us with leaves in the air, with plenty of laughing. This is our best attempt.

After lunch in Old Port, we headed over to the Freeport outlet mall for a little shopping. Do you love this giant boot at LL Bean?

The stores were all doing trick-or-treating so there were adorable kids (and adults) running around in costumes. Way fun! We also went into Wicked Whoopies for some whoopie pies.

All in all, we thoroughly enjoyed the New England charm of Maine.

That evening we decided to go to a haunted house, you know, with it being Halloween and all. We headed to Gloucester to the Castle of the Damned. The parking is a little ways away, so they shuttled us over in this spooky school bus, complete with creepy music.

Now, I've been to my fair share of haunted houses, but I have to say that this was the scariest ever. In Utah, they usually try to make some old warehouse look like an old castle. Well, this really was in an old castle, complete with a little cemetery.

They had a more realistic approach to scaring us, which was a little freaky, but luckily we didn't get too startled because we were at the back of the group they sent us in with. Jake did manage to get a rise out of all of us as we came out of the house and across a bridge. He was pretty proud of himself for that one.

We ended the night with some delicious fried dough. Happy Halloween!