Halloween Fun
Posted by Christopher Smith
So, the other day, we took the kid to see Boney Island. My wife had somehow found out about it (I’m guessing from LAist), and boy did she pick a winner. It’s a private home that has been converted over to be a mini-Coney Island…. run by skeletons. It’s all outdoors, and includes all the key elements of Coney Island, including a ferris wheel, bands, a ticket vendor, fortune teller, etc. It seemed to be just the right balance of scary and not scary for our three year-old. He found the crowds (and they were legion… enough that a firetruck was parked outside to keep an eye on things… and yes, the kid loved that too) more intimidating than the house itself. It was a good family experience, got rave reviews from the kid, and generally not a bad way to spend fifteen minutes, maybe half an hour, on a Halloween night. Our biggest problem is that now the kid thinks every house he sees on Halloween should be comparably equipped.