Halloween for Kids and Adults...38º

Sunday before noon, found Pam and I at the Wallowa Lake Lodge for the 3rd annual "Halloween Haunted House."...Pam recruited me last year to help her and Carolyn with the caramel apple booth...After doing this for two years they were set to streamline the process...No more whole apples dunked in the rich, gooey, sticky, sweet, delicious caramel sauce, for kids to take a few bites, before throwing them away and moving on to easier ways to consume sugar...Instead this year we would slice all apples, place 3 large slices on a plate and drizzle caramel over them...It was a hit, not only for the kids but for the parents as well...At least the children were getting a somewhat healthy snack and many requested apples with NO caramel and even adults stood in line for apples.

Next year we will streamline even more...Can you believe we spent almost two hours before the 2:00 opening, unwrapping caramel candy and melting batches in the microwave before putting them in crock pots to keep it warm for drizzling over the apples??? We did...Next year we hope to buy already melted caramel, do one crockpot and cut out the messy and time consuming process of making "liquid" out of little brown squares of caramel...We used about 20 bags of caramels and 80 large apples.

All in all it was a successful day, the entire upstairs is a haunted house, while the downstairs has stations set up with crafts, apple bobbing, Halloween Bingo to name a few...Over 200 people enjoyed the festivities from 2pm-5pm...After 6 hours on our feet, Carolyn, Pam and I stopped for dinner and visiting at the "Stubborn Mule."...Maybe we'll all be there again next year...Hugs to all...OWAV:)

Waiting for customers

The spider making booth.

Finger painting spooky stuff.