I didn’t take a lot of terribly good pictures of the 2008 Halloween Horror Nights trip.
For those that didn’t make the trip last year. The following movies would approximate the adventure.
The Punisher 2004 – Event Horizon – Doomsday – Jaws 3
Our First stop was Busch Gardens Howl-O-Scream in Tampa. It was fucking exhausting keeping up with Eric’s nightmare pace. He kept dragging me from one end to the other without giving me a chance to enjoy the atmosphere. There was some decent houses but I didn’t get a chance to hit all of them up. Here are a few of the decent snapshots of the houses I was able to take. Sorry for the bad picture quality, but I had to rely on the iPhone 3G without an external light source, I did not have the camera charged,
The next morning just like the Punisher I took a stroll through the mean streets of Tampa. Hit up a comics shop and a record store.
I was surprised to see Books and Music had a lot of old stock from Peaches Records and Tapes the now defunct music store that I spent a lot of my youth loitering in.
I picked up a few books, one of which was Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson
A fantastic read about the adventures of young adults in New York City. Mostly dealing with growing up and getting past that quarter-life crisis we deal with when friends start coming out of college and beginning interesting lives and careers and we just sit there seemingly going nowhere, merely wasting days.
We then headed over the Bay to St. Pete.
I was very curious about St. Petersburg because I’ve been mulling about the idea of moving there. Imagining a simpler and cheaper life, still living near the ocean, instead of the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico. We stopped of at one of the beaches to check it out.
The water was some of the bluest I’ve seen close to land. And crystal clear, tiny schools of fish were visible at the shore.
Our next stop would be Universal Studios.
We hooked up with my brother and some of his friends. Once again a lack of pictures, also very little time to enjoy the park. Long lines and and an early closing time kept us moving about.
We did get to see the new Simpsons Ride. And Haunted Houses based on Doomsday and Event Horizon.
The next day we hit up Sea World.
Where we got to see all sorts of aquatic life. And drink loads of free beer.
The best part though was the Shark Encounter.
Which featured an underwater shark tunnel, very different than the fictionalized one in Jaws 3.
and we ate at the Sharks Underwater Grill.
I kept hoping for a Great White to pop out through the glass and bite someone..
We Concluded the two day Sea World Saga with some Sea World Skeeball. My lifetime obsession with this crap game continues.
We moved back to Universal Studios for a taping of TNA Impact.
Got to see ODB
The newly arrived Booker T
and the debut of Mick Foley.
All in all it was a great four day trip and a much needed vacation at the time.
I am Looking forward to Halloween Horror Nights 2009, which at the time of this writing starts next Friday.
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