Hawaiian Halloween

I just got back from a trip to Hawaii, where Halloween decorations were in full swing. For me, the warm sunny tropics don't really say "Halloween." Cobwebs and other staples seem out of place, although the crabs that live in the lava rocks along the sea shore would make good candidates for spooky local mascots. Otherwise, Hawaii's only endemic land mammal is a bat, but one of their spiders is the smiley face spider so... Here are a couple of pics I took. I didn't bother with the garland of shiny 2D pumpkins that adorned the rope line at my hotel's front desk.

Searchlight

Driving home after 10PM tonight, I saw a searchlight hitting the clouds over Seattle. It made me nostalgic for when I was younger and my friends and I would try to drive to the source of the searchlight. It was never as exciting as we imagined it would be.

Tonight, I found the source of the searchlight without even making the effort to, which did give me a little thrill. This time, the source was probably the coolest I've come upon. It was the KUBE 93fm Haunted House. It actually looks pretty impressive from the outside. The Web site says tonight was the opening night, and it is open until midnight. Maybe I should have stopped, but that was never really the point of the searchlight search.