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B WednesdayOctober 24, 2012

ZOMBIESRETURN

By Warren Kagarisewkagarise@isspress.com

Last October, on a sunny afternoon, a regular Saturday turned unordi-nary as zombies menaced Issaquah.

The undead shambled into the sunset, and Is-saquah sidestepped a zombie apocalypse — for a while, at least.

The zombie horde is back.Expect to see the undead

shuffle down Front Street North on Oct. 27 dur-ing a Downtown Zombie Walk and then assemble for a flash-mob dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thrill-er” outside the Issaquah Library.

Unlike the mindless mobs in “The Walking Dead” and George A. Romero flicks, zombies in Issaquah cause more grins than grimaces.

The event starts as regular people stop at the historic Hailstone Feed Store and then — through

gory makeup, suspicious outbreak or unexplained cause — emerge as undead creatures.

Inside, participants can undergo a transformation by Illusions by Melanie. The makeup maven, Mela-nie, is a professional artist for fashion, film, print and TV projects.

Then, a slow shuffle from the feed store to the library starts, as motorists and pedestrians watch in amusement and, in some cases, unease.

Once the “Thriller” routine at the library concludes, undead danc-ers intend to disperse into the evening. Only, instead

of brains, zombies can stumble into downtown establishments for drink specials.

Organizers plan for a larger crowd for the up-coming event than in past zombie treks.

Tom Gotuzzo, a Down-town Issaquah Association board member, joined some friends to start the event in 2010.

“I think we had just got-ten done watching ‘Shaun of the Dead’ or something, and we said, ‘Man, it would be cool if we did some kind of zombie walk in down-town Issaquah,’” he said.

The undead horde last year, about 60 zombies strong, lurched to the library for a “Thriller” rou-tine. Zombies ambled into traffic and tapped on vehicle windows. Some unnerved motorists called the Is-saquah Police Department.

The event offered a credible glimpse at how a zombie apocalypse might unfold in Issaquah.

HALLOWEEN HAPPENINGS

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ON THE WEBWatch “The Making of Thriller” documentary on YouTube for zombie make-up and costume ideas at http://bit.ly/f7eP2D.

IF YOU GO

Downtown Zombie Walk

2:30-5:30 p.m. Oct. 27

The event is free, and open to zombies

of all ages and abilities.

www.issaquahzombiewalk.com

Schedule2:30-4:30 p.m. — “Thriller” practice and makeup at

Hailstone Feed Store, 232 Front St. N.

4:30-5 p.m. — Downtown Zombie Walk along

Front Street North from the feed store to the

Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way

5 p.m. — “Thriller” dance at the Issaquah Library

5:30 p.m. — Downtown establishments offer drink

specials to costume-clad zombies.

Enciso Family Farm, featuring you-pick pump-

kins and fresh Christmas trees; an old country

store with snacks, cozy fireplace and a selection

of specialty gourds and pumpkins; a barn from the

1800s; tractors from past and present; and more,

19417 196th Ave. S.E., Renton, 206-595-5845

Pumpkin Patch at Trinity Tree Farm, featur-

ing pumpkins for sale in the shop or farm stand,

pumpkin patch-pick in the field, open daily

through Oct. 28, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 14237 228th

Ave. S.E., www.trinitytreefarm.com

Nightmare at Beaver Lake, Oct. 24-31, Beaver

Lake Park, Southeast 24th Street, Sammamish;

The family scare runs from 7-7:45 p.m. nightly. The

full scare runs from 8-10 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday

and Thursday, and from 8-11 p.m. Friday and

Saturday. Tickets: $10 per person for a family

scare; $16 per person for a full scare. Donate a

can of food and receive a $1 discount on tickets.

Learn more and purchase tickets at www.night-

mareatbeaverlake.com.

Fall Fun Fest, for ages 6 and younger, 6-8 p.m.

Oct. 26, Issaquah Community Center, wear cos-

tumes, activities, prizes, $2 suggested donation

Cougar Mountain Zoo Pumpkin Bash, featur-

ing scavenger hunt, free return ticket to anyone

wearing a costume, pumpkin-themed enrich-

ment lectures and face painting, from 9:30 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Oct. 27-28. Admission is $5 for ages

2 and older. The zoo is at 19525 S.E. 54th St.,

www.cougarmountainzoo.org or www.facebook.

com/cougarmountainzoo

Green Halloween Festival, featuring Reptile

Man, games and rides and Thrill the World Flash

Mob, is from noon to 4 p.m. Oct. 27 at Blakely

Hall and Village Green, Issaquah Highlands, $1

for ticket or $20 for unlimited fun. Volunteers

needed. Email Christy at christy.g@ihcouncil.

org; ihwebsite.com or facebook.com/Highlands.

Council

Kids Harvest Party, featuring carnival games,

prizes and treats, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 27,

Foothills Baptist Church, 10120 Issaquah-Hobart

Road S.E., 392-5925

Issaquah Valley Senior Center carving demon-

stration day trips, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 29,

$18 for members or $20 for nonmembers

Make Your Own Zombie or Calaca (Skeleton)

Barbie, for teens, 3 p.m. Oct. 30, Issaquah

Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, 392-5430

Trick or Treat at Gilman Village, featuring a

friendly Frankenstein, for ages 12 and older, 4-6

p.m. Oct. 31, 392-6802

Halloween Carnival, featuring trick-or-treating,

pony and train rides, inflatables, s’mores, face

painting, games, crafts and concessions, 1-5 p.m.

Oct. 31, Fox Hollow Farm and Equestrian Center,

$5 for adults, $10 for children ages 1-17, 12031

Issaquah-Hobart Road S.E., 996-0575, foxhollow-

familyfarm.com/events/halloween

At left, zombies shamble down Front Street North during the 2011 Downtown Zombie Walk. pHoToS BY WarreN KagarISe

The Grange hosts cash mobIssaquah Chamber of Com-

merce’s next cash mob is at noon, Oct. 25 at The Grange, 145 N.E. Gilman Blvd.

In a cash mob, a group of people descends on a business to buy, buy, buy. The destination is revealed through social media services. Then, the mob pops up at the business to browse and shop.

The organizers — Young Issaquah Professionals, or YIPPIES, 20- and 30-some-thing business leaders in the Issaquah Chamber of Commerce — held earlier cash mobs at Sisters An-tiques and Fischer Meats.

Learn more about the cash mobs at www.facebook.com/CashMobIs-saquah and www.facebook.com/YoungIssaquahProfes-sionals.

We have had an exciting time and are just now pre-paring to leave England for France. Most of our time was spent in London

with brief excursions up to Manchester and York. Fortunately for us, the English weather has been unusually cooperative

for late September, with several days of sun and little rain.

Though the London area is an expensive place to visit, we have found ways of making it relatively affordable. Hostels are an affordable option for those who don’t mind shar-ing their bedroom with strangers.

Certain horror films in the U.S. give hostels a frightening reputation, though there are many websites, which are help-ful in choosing a good one. Our hostel experiences have been quite good so far.

The cost of admission varies greatly from attrac-tion to attraction, rang-

ing from free to about 20 English pounds. Luckily, many of the more interest-ing places, including the British Museum, the Na-tional Portrait Gallery, the Imperial War Museum and the Tate Modern Art Gal-lery, were free so we were able to visit those with-out worry. We often took advantage of student or young people (under 24-

26) discounts, which seem to be common at many of the bigger attractions.

There is also a free tour of London that alights daily from the southeast corner of Hyde Park, run-ning about two and a half hours. The tour covers many of the most iconic sites in the city, but more adventurous travelers can certainly tour these sites at their own leisure. We suggest starting from Tra-falgar Square and head-ing south to Parliament and Big Ben, crossing the Thames and walk-ing northward for a more scenic view of the Houses

CoNTrIBUTeD

Justin Kay, Andrew Baer and Matt Benson (from left) do their best Beatles imitation across Abbey Road in London.

Teens tackle England on a budgetEUROTRIP

Matthew Benson, Andrew Baer and Justin Kay are traveling through Europe before getting jobs and living in “the real world.”

See EUROTRIP, Page B3

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