Color Halloween Cocktails Orange with Solerno Blood Orange Liqueur

Orange is the color of Halloween. From the pumpkins on the lawn to the candy corn in the bowl, the spooky holiday is colored orange.

The color of the holiday, orange, is coloring some delicious adult cocktails. Here are a few adult cocktails made with Solerno Blood Orange Liqueur that can make this Halloween an orange colored festive one.

The Solerno Blood Orange Cosmopolitan

 Created by Charlotte Voisey

 Ingredients:

 1 part Reyka Vodka

 ¾ parts Solerno Blood Orange Liqueur

 ¾ parts cranberry juice

½ part fresh lime juice

Method:

Strain and shake into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with an orange zest.

                                                               

The Solerno Halloween Sour

Created by Charlotte Voisey
Ingredients:
2 parts Solerno

 ½ parts sugar syrup

1 dash Angostura bitters

 2 dashes orange bitters

Method: Shake and strain, into a tumbler or stemless wine glass over cubed ice.  Garnish with a blood orange.

 The Naughty St. Clements

Created by Charlotte Voisey

 Ingredients:

 1.5 parts Solerno

 ½ parts orange juice

1 ½ bitter lemon
Method: build in a stemmed wine glass.  Garnish with blood orange & lemon slice

SeaWorld Orlando's Halloween Spooktacular is a "fantasea"

Even as Halloween has become an all ages event, the kids are still the ones who have the most fun during this spooky holiday. From elaborate costumes to bags of candy, Halloween grows in popularity year after year. At SeaWorld Orlando, the annual Halloween Spooktacular is a fantasea. 

During SeaWorld Orlando's Halloween Spooktacular, young and old are immersed in an underwater fantasea. The event include trick-or-treating, whimsical pumpkin fish, sea-themed arts and crafts, and up-close animal encounters.

SeaWorld’s Halloween Spooktacular takes place from 12 p.m. to park close each weekend through October 30. Like all special events at SeaWorld, Halloween Spooktacular is included with park admission.

The theme park includes other special events during the event. These items include. 

·         Penelope’s Garden Party - This dynamic “underwater” environment comes to life each weekend with a live DJ, animal interactions, a variety of craft opportunities, bubbles floating overhead and whimsical sea-themed characters.

·         Sesame Street’s Countdown to Halloween - Celebrate a Spooktacular Halloween at SeaWorld with The Count, Elmo, Abby, and the rest of everyone’s Sesame Street friends!  The Count is feeling lonely this Halloween, and it’s up to park guests and the loveable monsters from Sesame Street to help him find the Halloween spirit.  Batty bats and spooky skeletons join the fun in a song filled stage show that invites guests to dance, play and sing along.   

·         Spooktacular Dance Party - Children join Princess Penelope and her under-the-sea friends for a Spooktacular Dance Party where they can participate in line-dancing favorites as clouds of bubbles fill the evening air. The party will kick off at the Village Square in the front of the park every event night one hour before park closing.

SeaWorld Orlando is located at 7007 Sea World Drive in Orlando. Park hours vary. Tickets can be purchased online or at the park. 

 

Six Flags Great America No Mercy, terrifying scares around every corner

As the Halloween witching hour descends on Six Flags Great America, Fright Fest shows no mercy in all its frights. Now through October 31, Six Flag’s Fright Fest is filled with the scariest, demonic, fearsome events known to show no mercy. From the extreme haunted houses to the numerous scare zones, Six Flags Fright Fest is extreme. 

During the annual Fright Fest event, Six Flags Great America turns the park into a huge Halloween experience. This event takes an army of characters, behind the scenes talent and operators to create the chaos.

Here are a few facts about the annual Six Flag Fright Fest Event.

• 250 zombies and monsters lurk the midways and haunted attractions
• 30 master make-up artists use 2,500 ounces of make-up and fake blood to transform actors each night
• 25 lbs of food-grade, red vegetable dye create the blood-tinged reflection pond
• 100 flaming torches create an eerie glow over the entire park 300 bales of hay add to the fall atmosphere
• 25,200 stalks of corn complete the festive park decor
• 4.5 tons of pumpkins and 160 yards of mulch form the "thrills by day" atmosphere
• 1,000 gallons of fog juice generate the mysterious rising fog effect throughout the park
• 1,600 yards of cheese and beef cloth are used to give the illusion of spider webs around the park
• Over 1,250 minutes per fright fest evening is spent applying make-up by 15 make-up artists
• Tiny, the 200 lb spider, has been perched on the American Eagle
• For 23 years a 53 foot, 600 lb gorilla claims the sky trek tower each fright fest season signaling the start of the uprising