An unbelieveable Hallowe’en in Tadoussac

Jane Chambers Evans — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:14:52 +0000

What a great day today. Crisp and cold and lots of very creepy people about.

First there was the village itself. Lots of fun decorations at the hotel, at Cotés and on the boardwalk. I have put pics below.

using up dead sheets!!

Serious grave work

either too much to drink or a dead zombie

I think he has a CAT head!!

Great phantom of the hotel.

The door of the hotel

Right side guard of the hotel door

Left hand guard

the gazebo just in front of the Gibard

Four characters prepared and put up by the students of the primary School

The black spider moved its head just as i took the picture and scared me to death!

Truly the most amazing thing was that on Wednesday the Principal of the school called to say that there would be a lot of action near of us and hoped that would be ok. What an amazing community event. A group of teachers and parents created a haunted forest on one of the cross country trails right near us. It took 2 days to construct and was superb. Today, Hallowe,en, the primary school from Tadoussac and the one in Sacre Coeur had all their students come in costume with teachers and parents also in costume and they went through the haunted forest in groups of 3-4 kids and one adult. About 200 kids in total. All the bigger kids went first (4-6 grade) and then they significantly altered the level of “trying to scare the crap out of the kids” for the grades 1-3 kids. Totally awesome. I have put here a whole series of pictures of the kids and teachers in their creative costumes.

Witch who greeted all the kids and they had to get a candy out of her cauldron before she caught their fingers in the pot

Teachers getting their directions prior to the event

Sacre Coeur gang

Teacher as witch

i would have loved to have had a pirate as a teacher

Sara Brisson from the bank as a lion tamer. Needless to say the “lion” was a big hit.

So in character as a goth type witch that people were walking around her

2 parents

I went through the haunted forest with one of the groups and it was amazing and I was as spooked as the kids. I wish I had had the skill to video the event but no not in the cards so here is a photo sequence of what I came across in the forest.

An hour after the event I walked the trail with the dogs and not a single trace of the event existed. The kids were totally in to this event and had such a great time.

What I really loved was that all the kids and teachers and parents knew each other. This is the type of rural world where I grew up. Very, very secure when you are a kid and a pain in the butt when you are a teenager!!

Happy Hallowe’en to all of you.

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An unbelieveable Hallowe’en in Tadoussac