Partner A has been wanting to go to "The Great Jack o'Lantern Blaze" for years, so we went on an adventure there, with a detour via Metro North to Sleepy Hollow.
-While I don't know if it was worth the price, it exceeded expectations. There were a lot of interesting carved real pumpkins, and they did imaginative things with fake pumpkins as well. (There were some sculptures where animal flesh had inexplicably turned into pumpkin flesh, and it did not seem by their arrangement that this was supposed to be a horror element, but it was creepy AF.)
-We suspect it would be a mind-blowing experience while high.
-If you live in Sleepy Hollow you may be required to decorate for Halloween. We got off the train in the fancy part of town and the houses and decorations were fun.
-But there is no real reason to visit Sleepy Hollow. There is a neat Headless Horseman sculpture, and the town works hard to draw in tourists, but it's skippable. We went on a cemetery tour which was well done, but we have more interesting local cemeteries. There was a wildly crowded street fair, but the booths were not unique.
-Every restaurant was absolutely packed, with lines of people waiting to go in. We lucked out in finding a fancy grocery store with a rooftop bar. They'd pared their menu for efficiency during tourist season, and we had a quite good pizza within 20 minutes of ordering via the QR code at our table. (Why are most businesses so bad at proactive event management? I appreciated this exception!)
-I wish everywhere had cheap, frequent trains!
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