HAUNTED CANYON

Last night we took a haunted train ride up Provo Canyon on the Heber Valley Railroad. It was super cute and fun! We took Jack (Gage's friend) and went with our neighbors, Jeff and Allie, and their 2 year old, Blake.

As you are heading up the canyon, you are listening to different ghost stories about the canyon over the PA. Outside the train windows, there are scenes that correlate to the ghost stories...the woman in the wedding dress looking for her husband's body after they crashed into the train, the carniverous cavemen from long ago, the crazy cat lady that turns kids into cats, the headless conductor...and so on. It was cool cause all the scenes were backlit and they had real actors out in the woods. Most of them were kinda far away but there was one scene about zombies and they were right up next to the train...it was a little freaky!! But the conductor said as long as the train doesn't stop, they can't get on so we should be ok!!

At the top of the canyon, the train stops (of course) and all the kids are screaming "don't let the train stop". It gets moving again, back down the canyon while more ghost stories are playing. It starts going fast, then jerking to stops, then fast again, then the conductor comes on and says there are problems with the brakes and everyone needs to hold on. All of a sudden the train comes to a stop and the lights go out! We sit there for a couple of minutes before the lights come back on and the train starts moving again.

The next thing you know, all the ghostly characters from the stories are on the train!!! They are running up and down the cars scaring all the kids and making a scene. It was pretty funny. The carniverous cavemen got in Gage and Jack's face and freaked them out a little bit; then they scared the crap out of Blake...poor kid! He was shaking and crying all the way back down the canyon!