The Melbourne Beach Fire Department understood the assignment. Not for the faint of heart, the annual Haunted House gets better with age. With broadway-quality sets, blood, guts and gore were plentiful. Add in monsters and zombies whose sole purpose is to make you jump. Then just when you think you’re safe, a crazy man with a chainsaw chases after you. This haunted house is what nightmares are made of. Lines were long, but worth the wait! But parents beware, it should come with a PG-13 warning. My 7 year old loved it but my 5 year old freaked out. Either way it was definitely more intense than I had anticipated.…

Plants, painting, music oh my! What a fun evening to help fundraise for the Gemini garden club.

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