Happy Day of the Dead

Nov 01, 2008

Happy Day of the Dead. Happy All Saints Day. Happy Saint Marcel of Paris Day. Day of the Dead is a celebration South of the Border, where you party, and have picnics in the cemetery with your dead realtives. All Saints is a Catholic feast day celebrating all the people that have died and attained sainthood. Tomorrow is All Souls, and celebrates all the faithful departed. Today is also, the feast day for Saint Marcel of Paris, the patron saint to be invoked to protect you from vampire attack. So, a busy holiday.

To celebrate all these fun things, I put on a shirt with skull and bats on it. Once appropriately dressed the three of us sat down to the tivoed marathon of Ghost Hunters from Halloween night. Trinity had gone trick or treating on the night itself, but today we spent watching Ghost Hunters: plumbers by day, ghost hunters by night. That’s for the two senior and founding members of the TAPS program. Though, after watching nine, yes, nine hours of the show we were left wondering what day jobs the rest of the TAPS crew has that allows them to do all this ghost chasing. Oh, TAPS stands for The Atlantic Paranormal Society. There are family branches across the country apparently, but none of the others has their own show. Though, Ghost Hunters: International does, and they are a spin off from TAPS.

Trinity doesn’t really like vampires and werewolves. Whereas I, as a child, loved best the monsters that could eat me and cause the most bloodletting, she prefers her monsters less visceral. She’s loved ghosts and mummies since she was quite small. Jon and I didn’t really like Ghost Hunters when she first started wanting to watch it, but it’s grown on us. I still can’t believe we watched nine hours of anything, but it was a family activity that Jon with his crutches could participate in, and spending the Day of Dead watching people use science to try and debunk haunted places seemed appropriate to the spirit of the day. No pun intended. Besides, we really do enjoy the show now. Trinity’s stoked that she won us both over to it.