Halloween 2000! It only gets better...

Click on any image below to see a larger version (a much much larger version unfortunately.)

This year, we added some more candles, made custom piping for the smoke machine, and David completely rebuilt the "Tunnel of Terror", allowing us to grab at peoples legs from outside the black cloth, and allowing for easier disassembly. Also, I found a bunch of poseable skeletons on sale for about $5 each, and you can see one of them on the left. The turnout was excellent, but the only hitch was that we lost our guardian angel to escort any scared children through the graveyard!

This is a good shot of the entryway for the kids. You can see the skeletal "Tunnel of Terror" on the left, which is covered in black cloth and decorated with spiderwebs lit with blacklights and strobes. At the end is a fortune teller who wisely suggests that candy may be in their future. Kids love it, but a few adults checking it out have soiled themselves going through this thing.

Kids older than about 10 are encouraged to walk through the candlelit graveyard to the front door where we give out serious candy!

On the left you can see a fog machine warming up. This year was excellent, no wind. Last year there was a light breeze that carried the fog off into the streets and obscured any vision for about a block. This year we were wise and notified the fire department :)

Just another shot of the yard. Oh yeah, we cover the garage with a spider web and have an actor in the garage with silly string. The kids are so amused about the spider they tend to forget the coffin in the driveway, which of course has a live "dead" person in it.

We've had to chase a few kids for a block or more to give their dropped candy bag back.
The gallows is a cute addition from a few years ago, and we usually hang a stuffed person from it. No, we can't hang Barney, cause he's already dead (his tombstone is in the graveyard!)
Of course it got busy real quick at dark, but we do have this picture, showing some of the candles before we fired up the smog generator.

Here are my two main accomplices for the Halloween spectacle, Dave and Kim! They have a wonderful marriage, and play nicely around toxic chemicals too! Oh yeah, notice the spider web in the background on the garage :)
These are a few select pictures from the 1999 Halloween presentation. We had a great time, but with no fence and poor piping for the fog, it was total blind chaos!
This is an overexposed picture from the 1999 Halloween that was just soooo awesome that I had to post it!
This is just a general panoramic pic. Feel free to click on some of the images to see larger versions, and take a look at the tombstones. I try and add one or two each year.