It's Spooktober (according to Alexa)

For the past three years I've had a lot of fun doing blog posts that counted down to Halloween but now it's time for something different. I'm still planning to babble on about the same old stuff but the numbers will go up instead of down. Big change, huh? Actually, I've been trying all year to come up with something new but apparently I'm just not THAT creative, ha!

Earlier this week, His Madness and I drove a couple miles out of town for a look at the new footbridge on Asylum Point. It takes it's name from the Northern Asylum for the Insane that opened in the 1870's and is still overlooking the lake. It's called the Winnebago Mental Health Institute now but the bay and the island still carry part of the original name. At least the word asylum by itself has a positive meaning, thankfully it didn't end up being called Insanity Bay.    

 

It's always been a popular spot for fishing and picnicking but the bridge was destroyed by ice shoves awhile ago and it's taken several years to get it replaced. You can tell a lot about how interesting a city is by how excited people get about a new footbridge to a tiny manmade island. 

Along the shoreline the leaves are beginning show a little color but they're still mostly green. The county was nice enough to dock one of their boats in a picturesque spot. Oddly enough, its name either means "peace pipe" or "low body of deep, still water". Don't you just love it when the internet contradicts itself?

The lighthouse was built in 1937 as part of a WPA project. There are differing accounts on the internet whether or not it was ever lit up for navigation. Apart from the nearby cemetery containing the unmarked graves of former patients, there aren't any stories connected to it and no one seems to think it's haunted. 

Back at home, the Crew was prepping for another sort of haunting, Hocus Pocus 2!

Looks like they decided to bring in a few of the outside decorations for the big event.

 

Last year we ended All Hallow's Eve by watching the original Hocus Pocus, so to begin this years festivities we repeated the same snacks and beverages. 

Right before Halloween last year I found these shot glasses at Home Goods. So far, Baileys and RumChata are the only liquors that allow the decorations to show up. Who knew filling up glasses could be so complicated?  

I thought the movie was good. It can't compete with the original but I'll probably watch it again this month. However, at the end of the movie, near the last of the credits (or somewhere close), there's a brief scene of Cobweb jumping from shelf to shelf in the magic shop and then landing next to this box. So, when can we expect Hocus Pocus 3?

Thanks for stopping by!

Did you watch the Hocus Pocus 2? What did you think of it?