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First, let me start by telling you where you should begin.  If you don't already have a copy click here to get the Houston Chronicle's Fall Bazaar's & Festivals  insert that came with Sunday's paper several month's ago.  Me, along with several other fabulous ladies, advertised in it but most importantly it lists almost every market and event going on in the greater Houston area.  It is a goldmine of information!  Some of my other Fall Favorites are listed under my 'Outdoor Play' section of the website, like Dewberry Farm , Matt Family Orchard Harvest Festival, & for something new: TGR Exotics Pumpkin Patch on the Wild Side & you MUST go check out 7 Acre Wood....WOW!  Enjoy the list...  

Friday, October 3rd

Zapp Hall - last call folks!  Ends tomorrow!  See yesterdays blog!
Waller County Fair - map - Way fun!  We went tonight and had a BLAST!  Stop by the 'roasted corn' vendor...YUM!  The kids will love the house of mirrors at the carnival!!  The mini rodeo is way cool too!! 
Saturday, October 4th
1000 Hills Ministry 4th Annual Auction for the Benefit of Houston's Homeless - 6pm @ St.John the Divine (River Oaks @ Westhiemer) AWESOME event!  They had a secret donor come forward and is willing to match EVERY penny earned at this festival!  So if you spend $5 that secret donor will too!  Incredible Silent Auction, tons of fun stuff for kids, pumpkin patch, Coldstone Ice Cream will be there, Bake Sale, Honeydew the Clown, KSBJ live with Tim McDermott!  Great event!  And that fabulous Monica Heard is offering a FREE TICKET (they are asking $20 at the door) to ALL NinaLoca.com viewers!  So print this out and take it with you!!!

FUMC Family Fun Festival - map - off 290 @ Fairbanks. Great family fun!
St.Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church - map 
Waller County Fair - map - Way Fun!  We went last night and it was AWESOME!  Bring cash to park, (there is an ATM inside the grounds), rickshaws to give you a ride 'to and from' your cars (so like Austin...I loved it) and the food is awesome!  Carl's BBQ, Roasted Corn, Turkey Legs, Funnel Cakes, you name it!  The House of Mirrors and ferris wheel are way cool! 
Hunstville 34th Annual Fair on the Square - map - 370 vendors, way fun! 
Zapp Hall - last day!  Go, go, go NOW!  Coolest market i have ever been to!  30 mile stretch!  Stay the night!!!
Vintage Park - 249 @ Louetta.  Every Saturday in October Vintage Park will have live music, hayrides, carnival games, craft booths, stilt walkers, live dancers, magicians, jugglers, & more!  I love it!
Sunday, October 5th
St.Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church - map 
Friday, October 10th

Angels Kids Consignment Fall Sale - 1/2 price Day!  Thanks for this great tip Dana!  Great sale items Moms!!  Way cute stuff!
Cole's Crossing Fall Market - Fabulous event!  Please be sure to stop by the Cypress Cares table to sign Christmas Cards for our troops! 
Create Me a Story @ Arts of Glaze - 10am, ages 3-5 (this is not a drop-off) Come hear an amazing story and create something fun that relates to the story.  Snack will be provided.  $10 per child - reservations required.
Saturday, October 18th
Bear Creek United Fall Festival & Bazaar  - contact/map
Cole's Crossing Fall Market - Fabulous event!  Please be sure to stop by the Cypress Cares table to sign Christmas Cards for our troops!
Judy Dierker Holiday Market at Foundry United Methodist Church - this is a FABULOUS event!
Just Between Friends Fall Sales Event - map - if you have not heard about this, SIGN UP!
Old Time Christmas Tree Farm & Pumpkin Patch - 10am-7pm, Always a family favorite!!
Zoo Boo at The Houston Zoo - 9am-4pm, discount tickets at Fiesta!  Giant Pumpkin patch, create-a-mask, animal chats, trunk-or-treat, lost species cemetery,and much more!
Texas Renaissance Festival - always a favorite since I was a kid!
Vintage Park - 249 @ Louetta.  Every Saturday in October Vintage Park will have live music, hayrides, carnival games, craft booths, stilt walkers, live dancers, magicians, jugglers, & more!  I love it!
Sunday, October 19th
Texas Renaissance Festival - always a favorite since I was a kid!
Thursday, October 23rd
Zoo Boo at The Houston Zoo - 9am-4pm, discount tickets at Fiesta!  Giant Pumpkin patch, create-a-mask, animal chats, trunk-or-treat, lost species cemetery,and much more!
Ladies Only Night @ Arts of Glaze - 6pm-10pm Come enjoy a fun evening painting and relaxing with friends!  Receive 10% off one piece of pottery or 15% a mosaic.  Come dressed for Halloween and get an additional 5% off!  Reservations are required & you may bring your favorite beverage (yippppeeee!)
Old Time Christmas Tree Farm & Pumpkin Patch - 10am-7pm, Always a family favorite!!
Friday, October 24th
WeeWuns CUMC Fall Festival  - always a fun event and the best baked goods and silent auction!
Saturday, October 25th
Life is Good Pumpkin Patch Festival - Cinco Ranch, Katy, TX
Condit Elementary Fall Carnival  - Bellaire, 1-4pm.  Always a fabulous event!  Pie eating contest, cake walk, face painting, you name it!
Zoo Boo at The Houston Zoo - 9am-4pm, discount tickets at Fiesta!  Giant Pumpkin patch, create-a-mask, animal chats, trunk-or-treat, lost species cemetery,and much more!
NWHMOM Vendor Day Benefit for 'Help Lauren Learn' - @ Coles Crossing Clubhouse,  9am-4pm.  Click Here for flyer and vendor participation.  This event is for such a beautiful cause and let me encourage all of you to come out and participate.  Not only will this be fabulous fun for the entire family, but all proceeds will go to 5 year old Lauren who is deafblind.  Lauren is in need of an intervener so she may learn to communicate with her hands.  There are 700 deafblind children in Texas and Lauren is one of them.  For more information on this event, participation, how you can help, and to meet sweet Lauren, please click here: Help Lauren Learn 
St.Thomas Episcopal Market & Fall Fair - 4900 Jackwood, #713-666-3111.  11am-6pm, Near Meyerland plaza.  Games, rides, 30 merchants, killer food!  Experience the sounds and flavors of Greece! Awesome event!! 
Tails of Texas Pet Howl-O-Ween Costume Party & Contest - 4-6pm  Dress up your pooch for some howling fun!  17720 Huffmeister Rd., Cypress TX #281-373-4640
Old Time Christmas Tree Farm & Pumpkin Patch - 10am-7pm, Always a family favorite!!
Street of Shoppes Fall Festival at St.Dunstan's Episcopal Church - in Champions/Spring area
St. John Lutheran Fall Festival - 1pm-4pm in the gym, map
Texas Renaissance Festival - always a favorite since I was a kid!
Vintage Park Grand Opening Fall Celebration - 249 & Louetta.  Live performance by 'By Request', spooky activities, palm reader, tarot card reader, pumpkin decorating, hayrides, carnival games, craft booths, stilt walkers, live dancers, magicians, jugglers, & more!  I love it! Plus Trick-or-Treating vintage style! I love this new area!
Sunday, October 26th
Texas Renaissance Festival - always a favorite since I was a kid!
Cypress United Church Fall Festival - Cute little church, big fun event! map it
Old Time Christmas Tree Farm & Pumpkin Patch - 10am-7pm, Always a family favorite!!
Zoo Boo at The Houston Zoo - 9am-4pm, discount tickets at Fiesta!  Giant Pumpkin patch, create-a-mask, animal chats, trunk-or-treat, lost species cemetery,and much more!
Friday, October 31st  HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!  *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Trick-Or-Treat Off The Streets at Houston Premium Outlets - Don't have a kid friendly neighborhood?  Bring those sweet babes out to the outlet in their costumes and get loaded up with treats!
Cypress Point Halloween Festival  - Cypress Point Subdivision Clubhouse, 5-10pm, Contact Dan Lowe for more info This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   Bake sale, inflatables, games, you name it!  Vendors still needed to contact the Lowes for more info!  GREAT EVENT!!
KSBJ 89.3 Contemporary Christian Fall Festival at Fairfield Baptist Church - 6:30-9:30pm, They will have 'Trunk-Or-Treat' (love that), moonwalks, laser tag, hay rides, you name it!  *Please see their rules for entry fees (one unopened bag of candy) and NO SCARY costumes!  Love that!!
Fairfield Church of Christ Fall Festival - Great event!
Jersey Village Baptist Church Trunk-Or-Treat - 5:30pm-8pm, so much fun!  Each vehicle trunk will be lined up and decorated differently so that your little ones can 'trick-or-treat' in a safe environment! 
Westbury Baptist Church 2008 Fall Carnival - 6:30pm-8:30pm, 10425 Hillcroft, #713-723-6428.  Tickets only .25 cents each! 

HAUNTED HOUSES
The Houston Press always has fabulous Haunted resources!  Another cool website I found will find you a Haunted house ANYWHERE in the USA by clicking on the state!  It is called Haunted House Online.  Here are your spooky local listings:

• Phobia - 2 locations - one @ HWY 290 & one @ 45 Mall of The Mainland #713-526-DEAD (hahaha!  great number!)
• Screamworld - right off the beltway near 45N. this place looks FREAKY!  Tons of attractions, way scary!  Click here to get directions and sign up for coupon!
• Castle of Doom, The Sanitarium, The Texas Chainsaw Maze - map - off 45S just past 610.  SCARY!!!
• Heart Stopper Fright - map - contact (59 N in Shepherd/Cleveland toward Livingston) OK, you could not pay me to do this one (but I want to go because I am sick and twisted that way).  FREAKIN' SCARY AS @&(#$!!!  At first, the website seems ho-hum.  Then the more you start clicking around the freakier it gets and it scared the crap out of me!  It's done outdoors in THE WOODS with FOG and indoors!!  NO FLIPPIN' WAY!  I called the owner and he told me that the indoor section is called NO MERCY >> once your in the indoors section there is only one way out and practically impossible to find.  GOOD GOD!  No props to scare you...ALL real people to chase you around this massive acreage.  They just opened last year and got a 10 skull rating (that's like 5 stars in Halloween lingo) from tons of panels.  Your teens will love it. 
• The Carnage - map - I10 @ Silber - this is an AWESOME website and looks FREAKY!!!
• Stages of Fear - fun site!  located in Pasadena
   

If you know of any upcoming festivals, events, markets or Haunted House's please give me a buzz and I will add them to the list! BOO!   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it