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Last night me and some girls from work went on a "haunted trolley tour" of Richmond. Having grown up and lived in Richmond all my life, I wasn't expecting much. I mean, how many times can you be entertained by the same sites but I really enjoyed it. It was different going to all these places at night. The 2 tour ghouls were dressed up in character and we stopped at several places to have them tell us ghost stories. With slavery and the civil war I guess Richmond holds some ghostly potential. I liked that they also made it a little history lesson too and one of the things I learned was Edgar Allen Poe's mom was buried at St Johns, (which of course we all know is where Patrick Henry made his famous speech) a right usually reserved for Richmond's wealthy blue bloods but promises and money was exchanged and St Johns agreed to allow her to be buried there in an unmarked grave. Many years later after Poe's rise to fame a marker was eventually added but it's said you could always find her by the sweet scent of roses, a perfume she wore in life......creepy LOL!
Anyway, this got me thinking. What are you all doing for Halloween? Anyone going to the pumpkin patch? Or a haunted house?
Next week I'm having a pumpkin carving party. A bunch of friends come and we eat yummy food and watch The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and carve pumpkins. It's always lots of fun. Then on Halloween I cook lots of yummy stuff again and we usually have a few people over and watch movies. We get lots of trick or treaters and I make the best goodie bags for them
Anyway, this got me thinking. What are you all doing for Halloween? Anyone going to the pumpkin patch? Or a haunted house?
Next week I'm having a pumpkin carving party. A bunch of friends come and we eat yummy food and watch The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and carve pumpkins. It's always lots of fun. Then on Halloween I cook lots of yummy stuff again and we usually have a few people over and watch movies. We get lots of trick or treaters and I make the best goodie bags for them