To be honest I was initially skeptical about home schooling, wondering if a parent really has the skill base to teach. And I was checking everywhere on the internet and getting a ton of conflicting thoughts. To back up a bit, I don’t have any kids that are of school age. However, my alarmist wife is starting to make me think.
My best friend has had a rough and tumble winter this year. He’s been about 2 or 3 months out without paying his mortgage and has tons of people sending him mail wishing to be his friend and pull him out of debt. I thought this was peculiar on how they should know such embarrassing knowledge about his monetary welfare. They have neat little form letters with mustached men in black and white photos copping a cheesy, choose-me smile. They go on in the letter professing how they feel for him and how they would like to give him loans to cover his defaulted loan to avoid bank foreclosing.
I was surprised to learn that there are a large number of haunted houses in Denver. When I think of Denver, I think of the movie The Unsinkable Molly Brown, of snow skiing and a big airport, but I guess there are a lot of people in the area who like a good scare during the month of October.
Four of the most popular haunted houses in Denver have collaborated to sell passes that are honored at all four frightful establishments. If you can’t afford to spend $45 on an all-inclusive haunted house pass though, you may have to choose just one or two places to visit.
To help narrow down the choices, it may be helpful to learn a little about each house. I don’t mean learning so much that you can draw a blueprint of the place you are going to – after all, that would make it a lot harder to be surprised and scared during your visit – but it would be nice to know things like the themes, props and actors at each house and their hours of operation and admission prices.
Personally, when I try to find ratings, I feel like number systems give me a better idea of how well each category is presented than relative descriptions like “it was really scary.” If 10 is the scariest ranking that a house can be given, and one earns a 7 while another earns a five, I know immediately which place will fit my needs best. Ranking the houses in order of scariest to least-scariest would also be a great help to parents who are trying to decide which places would be the most fun for their family.