Vancouver’s favourite family places are all decorated up for the season. You’ve got Fright Nights at the PNE, The Ghost Train in Stanley Park, The Great Big Boo at different places around town, The Haunted Trolley Tours from the Vancouver Museum and Halloween Hoopla at the Burnaby Village Museum.

Last weekend we checked out World of the Weird at the Vancouver Aquarium.

World of the Weird runs on the weekends, with a spooky hallway all decorated up in the bowels of the Aquarium, along with special creepy crawly gross and ghouly stations throughout the facility.

Here’s what they have to scare the pants right off ya:

1. HAUNTED HALLWAY TOUR – Explore the inky bowels of the Aquarium and prepare for a STARTLING view of what really goes on behind the scenes.

2. HANG WITH OUR BATS – A fun little game similar to TV’s “Jeopardy!” educates you on the wonders of BATS and dispels common myths.

3. PICK YOUR POISON – Learn to distinguish between VENOM & POISON (no, we’re not talking about 80’s recording artists Venom and Poison)

4. FRIGHT FACTOR – Chow down on a cheddar flavoured meal worm or a salt ‘n vinegar flavoured cricket. If you have the GUTS, that is…

5. CREEPY CAMOUFLAGE – Learn how OCEAN PREDATORS use camouflage to “sneak up” on prey … and you just might fall prey yourself, as you learn!

The haunted hallway was a little too old for Z. He didnt really notice anything was going on, except that it was dark. He actually didnt get scared. He did, however, totally dig in to the cheddar flavoured meal worm. Yup. My son ate a maggot.

Check out the Vancouver Aquarium website for info about World of the Weird, and be watching tomorrow for the official announcement of the baby beluga’s name!

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