6/26/2006 - Back from Ironstock

Ironstock was awesome!  If you didn’t go and you do a lot of haunting, you should kick yourself.  It was the best time I have had for a while.  We started out having to drive out to Lockport, Illinois so that we could join DragonLady Sue from the Las Ryds Hearse Club.   It was suppose to be a convoy of 5 hearses, but we only started with 2.  Later on another hearse would join the group.  I brought my walkie talkies on the trip so we could talk to the hearse drivers.  It was a good idea.  We had so many laughs.  One thing about driving in a hearse caravan is that you will notice all the heads turning.  There were times when I couldn’t help but laugh because of someone turning their head really quick to see the hearses.  And one time, while at a gas station, a bunch of Amish came over to check out the hearses.  Now that was funny.

It took us about 9 ½ hrs from Chicago to Tell City, In.  Now, I waited too long to get a hotel in Tell City, so I was forced to get one in the next city; which just happens to be in the state of Kentucky.(Lewisport)  Nice Hotel, but the wi-fi really sucks.  I couldn’t upload my photos.  My wife was really tired from the drive so we didn’t make the meeting that was planned at the Ramanda Inn with WormyT being the host.  But we were ready the next day for Ironstock.  I met a lot of people from the hauntforum and halloweenforum that I knew.  Of course there was Frightners Entertainment.  He was there selling lots of stuff. Then I saw Strange1.  Jeff introduced me to him, just after I had put my underwear up on his ceiling.  That would be another story.  LOL.  I also got to met Bodybagging, which had his own booth.  Then I met WormyT, that most everyone in the haunt community knows.  Then I got to met Merlin(the quite one)  She was giving away prizes in the Ironstock raffle.  Which I didn’t win. 

At one time I thought that I had taken more pictures than wormy, but I found out that she had already taken around 900 pictures; I on the other hand only 389.  I jokily said that I would need 2 cameras to catch up to you wormy, which she said that is how she took the 900 pictures in the first place.  She already had two cameras.  Holly crap.  Now, I need two cameras.  LOL

On Saturday the famous coffin race was held.  This is basically an obstacle course of tombstones.  There are 5 members on your team.  One is the corpse, which you have to pick up and put in a coffin on a gurney.  The coffin is then raced thru the obstacle course with out going over the lines or hitting any tombstones along the way.  You then stop your coffin at the end and take your corpse(team member) out of the coffin and place them on the ground next to the tombstone.  You then have to race back thru and cross the finish line.  Sounds simple, sure it is.  We were suppose to enter but out team chickened out at the last second.  I guess we should practice first.    Of course if I were going to pick teams I would have Zombie-F(Hauntforum.com), Krough(Grimvisons.com), Dr. Morbius(Robbybuilder.com), Myself, and I don’t know who I would pick for the corpse.  I will have to think about that one.  We could get Hella, PeeWee, or maybe Dark Fanged Bat Lady.   John from pumpkinrot.com could be the corpse too.  He needs a good vacation.

On Saturday night there is a costume party at around 9pm.  Everyone was dressed in costume except for a few people.  They also have a few contests.  I know wormy won for the best display.  I have a picture of that too.

I would also like to beg WormyT and Strange1 not to post any pictures of me.  I am wanted in 5 or 6 states and on Americas most wanted.  So don't do it.  LOL.