Post #58171 by Tiki-bot on Mon, Nov 3, 2003 3:19 PM

Posting anything after Monkeyman's phenomenal Peter Pan Halloween is almost an exercise in futility, but here I humbly present our Haunted Pirate Cave, otherwise known as the sidewalk in front of our house.

It took only a weekend and a few evenings to create with a little help from my friend, Todd. I mixed up a suitably scary pirate/ocean themed sountrack that played through hidden speakers. The kids seemed to alternately love it/be confounded by it, while the adults really dug it. One little girl argued that she had seen our block many times and swore that there was no cave located on it! We begged to differ.

Sunday the 26th: This is the completed cave structure I stapled the rock/paper to, looking out from the porch. Neighbors were worried we were tenting the house for bugs or doing a really shoddy room addition.

After a warm & balmy beginning to the week, it turned cold and on Halloween morning it hailed like a mutha! This is the backyard deck. The cave got a bit wet, but the skies cleared and my portable propane heater dried the paper out quickly.

The completed cave. Not much to look at in the daylight.

But at night it was pretty damn cool. Mrs. Pineapple sports her pirate duds by the cursed pirate treasure.

It's hard to capture the moody pools of red lighting with a digital camera, but this is the best I could get of the treasure/dead pirate, which was the main display in the cave.

All our pirate guests gather for a shot.

The Pine-Arrrr-ples after much Trader Vic's Punch from the Grog Log.

We had a blast putting this on and look forward to doing something bigger and better next year. Ahoy!