Fredericksburg Zombie Walk

jim65wagon

jim65wagon

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Last weekend we had the opportunity to participate in an event unlike any other we have attended. To participate we merely had to bring in some food donations for the local Food Bank, and "Dead" ourselves. The 3rd annual Fredericksburg Zombie Walk was put on by the Mean Mommies Club. We read about it in the local paper and decided it was a must do event, as the whole family digs zombies and it's always fun to dress up for Halloween.

I worked late on Saturday, not getting off shift until 2PM, the Zombie preliminaries began at 3, and the walk began at 4. This gave me enough time to get home for my daughter to make me dead. We were already running behind and when Madeline said "you need to change clothes, I don't want to get blood on your work clothes." My reply (because it had been a bad day and I spent 3 hours fixing someone elses F-Up making me late) was, "WalMarts been killing me for 21 years, I'm wearing these clothes and the name badge cause when the Apocalypse comes, this is probably what I'll be wearing!" with that I shredded my work clothes and she threw makeup and blood on me. She did a good job, I think.
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Lots of Zombies showed up, upwards of 700, the Food Banks truck was overflowing with food, and we all shuffled through town moaning and groaning away. It was awesome!




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Great Day for a good cause.
 
Awesome. You guys look great, some very convincing walkers there!!! :zombie
 
Aloha! Jim....not trying to hijack your thread. I should have gave you a shout out this Summer. I was in Yorktown Virginia visiting a good friend from long ago. I was just down the road from you. And I got lucky, and was able to see my Daughter this Summer. She just moved to Leesburg Virginia, not far from you and is teaching 1st grade at the local elementary public school. I have no idea why she left Lahaina Maui....oh well. Now I love the East Coast! At Least VA and south. And I continued my drive down the coast to Charleston SC. to visit more family. What a beautiful coast! Went body surfing at Surf City NC and the water was 82*....! Wow! Who knew? Stood on the sand dunes where the Wright Brothers first flew! Best Summer road trip ever, 21 States and 8,500 miles of Smiles!
 
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Aloha! Jim....not trying to hijack your thread. I should have gave you a shout out this Summer. I was in Yorktown Virginia visiting a good friend from long ago. I was just down the road from you. And I got lucky, and was able to see my Daughter this Summer. She just moved to Leesburg Virginia, not far from you and is teaching 1st grade at the local elementary public school. I have no idea why she left Lahaina Maui....oh well. Now I love the East Coast! At Least VA and south. And I continued my drive down the coast to Charleston SC. to visit more family. What a beautiful coast! Went body surfing at Surf City NC and the water was 82*....! Wow! Who knew? Stood on the sand dunes where the Wright Brothers first flew! Best Summer road trip ever, 21 States and 8,500 miles of Smiles!
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It's all good SWR. The East has a lot more to offer than most "explorers/overlanders" give it credit for. Lots to do and lots to see. From the beaches to the mountains, and Maine to Florida.......give a shout next time you're near town....
 
Cool zombies!!! They do the same thing here in Dago, with hundreds of the "undead" roaming the Gaslamp Quarter, LOL.

Hey, SWR, when I finagled a day off and visited Myrtle Beach, SC, a few years ago, body-whomping in 80-degree water (or darned close), there was shoulder-to-head-high surf with good form (I was expecting zero---heller East Coast flat), no stingrays and no jellyfish... call it PARADISE, even if the waves could've been a little bigger (I've been known to body surf big waves here on the West Coast). EXCELLENT VISIT, with multiple sessions, some pub crawling at Gilligan's and the pier (Pier 14, I think?), and some beautiful Southern women with fine accents, 10-4??? Heaps of friendly people there in Myrtle Beach, I had a good time there and left (unintentionally) with half the beach in my damned tractor, took about a week to get all the sand out, LOL.

One other memorable East Coast visit occurred at Virginia Beach, VA, which gets my vote for "Best Boardwalk Design Nationwide"---whoever designed the "new" boardwalk there did a fine job. When a friend of mine [Mikey J, former pro surfer with nearly 30 shots in the mags, including at least one centerfold barrel shot] and I visited Virginia Beach for two nights and the intervening day, we experienced record temps for January... 78 degrees on Sunday, January 4th, if I recall correctly, this was in 2005, maybe? Give or take a year or two? I'm sure the record still stands, the full day we spent there was awesome, but, unlike my later visit to Myrtle Beach, SC, the surf was flat and the water temp was about 45 degrees, LOL. Shortest swim on record for this traveler... ran and dove in at speed, expecting warm water since the day was so warm, then HASTILY made my way back onto the beach, looking like one of the zombies in this thread as I emerged, LOL.

I still like body-whomping, always was good at it because I'm a strong swimmer, 10??? You may be in Hawaii part of the year or whatever, but we get some pretty big surf here at times... big enough to thrash the I.B. Pier back in the day, and bigger than that in the early '80s, when perfect form at "Outlet" and "Officer's Beach" (NASNI) brought surfers from around the globe to ride the peeling waves (and they do NOT always peel in such fashion, I guarantee it, usually the waves close out in huge walls when it gets really big). I remember being stuck outside for a bit when a HUGE SET rolled in and cleaned up EVERYBODY... I was seriously debating whether to swim for a small fishing boat a quarter mile away, but wound up riding some big ol' monster wave into the shallows, getting thrashed in the machine wash in the process (at least 10' of foam at the end). No worries, good memories, but dangerous for those unfamiliar with the break, the same way breaks in Hawaii are dangerous to those who lack experience.

P.S. When parts of the I.B. Pier washed ashore in Coronado in the winter of '78, my friends and I burned huge sections of it down at North Beach. There was so much driftwood on the beach after that storm (technically, a series of storms) that city workers used heavy equipment to collect it all into a pile larger than a two-story house... pier sections, trees, you name it, the small stuff consisted of anything under 8' or 10' in any direction. When my friends and I burned the largest pier section, which was the size of my dining room floor in terms of area, it took about 15 or 16 of us to hump that thing down to the already-blazing bonfire, in short steps of lifting and carrying because the thing weighed about a ton, LOL. Burned for 2 or 3 days too, we used to go down to North Beach and party every night while the free firewood lasted, 10-4??? Those days are long gone, but one day I'll write about all that happened down there back in the late '70s and early '80s, just to document the era.

Ah, well, enough reminiscing and thread-jacking for now... back to my Chiefs-Broncos game, I've watched some good football today while knocking out other tasks. Never did get to post those shots from the Jurassic Desktop Computer, it's all f____d up and is about to hit the recycling center. Thing has more viruses than the CDC, 10? I guess I need an app to post photos directly from this iPad, and I ain't payin' for NOTHIN' right now, as far as computer software goes. Oh, well, maybe I can figure out a way to post those cool shots later... in the meantime, I'll watch some more NFL action, LOL. ADIOS!!!
 
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Zombie Wannabies in Yorktown Virginia this Summer....

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