First stop was the Pre-Scare dinner, a picnic styled buffet of ribs, chicken, hot dogs, and other not-quite-worth-$12 offerings. The nice part was that we were able to enter the park at 6:30p instead of 7p (and it took some of our non-pre-scare crew 1.5hrs to get into the park after it opened due to heightened security). During the dinner, monsters ran about frightening teenaged girls and otherwise enjoying the family type atmosphere. Here, (l to r) Carol Anderson, Tony Stray, and Mike Cunanan learn the fine art of picking up ghouls.

I scored a monster of my very own.

Horns up! Joined by Kim (Sterling), Tony displays his bucket-o-Knott's Berry Punch while we are waiting in line. Like any theme park, there is a LOT of waiting in line to be had...

And after a while of waiting in long lines, the insanity starts to set in. Denis "The Moshking" Recendez and William "Fro" Rustrum engage in a loving embrace -- with poor Carol caught in the middle!

Among the most-hyped attractions at Knott's Scary Farm are the 3D mazes. In order to view the 3D effects, however, you need to purchase "optional" 3D glasses. By selling instead of providing the glasses, Knott's made an extra $7 off this crew. At least the glasses were fashionable.

We seriously cannot take this man anywhere without having him desecrate the statuary...

... or else being desecrated by the statuary. Hmmmmm... not sure I wanna know what funnel those cakes came out of. Looks painful! Is this what you'd call Statuatory Rape?

After we took this shot, several passers-by laughed so hard they felt the need to duplicate the idiocy for their own photo albums. One not-so-gentleman even decided to add nuts to the funnel cake.

One last photo bearing horns before leaving the park, this time at the Bottle House, a house constructed completely of bottles. In our evening's trek through Knott's Scary Farm, we all noticed was many metalheads were employed by Knott's. We could not go through a single maze without having at least one monster or ghoul fall out of character to compliment our metal tee-shirts (especially Tony's Iced Earth shirt and Fro's Dimmu Borgir shirt).