Halloween evening Dave and I went to Sleepy Hollow, NY where Washinton Irving lived and the
Legend of Sleepy Hollow is set.
The Headless Horseman chasing poor Ichabod Crane.
"On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck, on perceiving that he was headless!--but his horror was still more increased, on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders was carried before him on the pommel of the saddle..."
"An opening in the trees now cheered him with the hopes that the church bridge was at hand. The wavering reflection of a silver star in the bosom of the brook told him that he was not mistaken. He saw the walls of the church dimly glaring under the trees beyond. He recollected the place where Brom Bones's ghostly competitor had disappeared. "If I can but reach that bridge," thought Ichabod, "I am safe."
We took a stroll in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery, it was a really neat old cemetery but being there at night was a bit spooky!
Washington Irving's family plot
After Sleepy Hollow we went to the Great Jack 'O Lantern Blaze in nearby Croton-on-Hudson, NY. This was so much fun, they had over 4,000 individually hand-carved pumpkins. We took a ton of pictures:
So many pumpkins! I wonder how many people are involved in carving them all?
A gigantic spider's web with arachnids all around it.
Dinosaurs!
Toadstools and fairies
A sunken ship with fish swimming around it
These are just so cool, they would be so tricky to carve!
This was probably my favorite, a busy beehive swarming with bees!
Sunflowers
The jack 'o lantern blaze was so much fun, it was more than we were expecting it to be!
