Best Halloween Ever

This year for Halloween, two friends and myself decided to do  
mushrooms on Halloween, which turned out to probably be the best idea  
we'd ever had. I was so excited all day at work that time flew by, and  
before I knew it was 5:00 pm, and time to start the adventure of a  
lifetime...
 
My friend has the entire basement of his house to himself, which was  
great since we could leave anytime we wanted. We we're all very  
experianced shroomers, this being my sixth time, so we decided to do  
the most we'd done yet: 7 grams of dried mushrooms each, mostly caps.  
We decided to smoke some weed before we took them, so we wouldn't care  
about the taste since we'd have the munchies and be hungry anyways  
hahaha. We decided to take half then, half later and almost  
immediately after taking the shrooms we decided to walk to our local  
chill out spot, a nearby elementry school.
 
When we got there we just sat around for a bit and listened to  
"Truenorth" by No-Man, a super chill 13 minute long song I always  
listen to on shrooms. I had brought some colourful fireworks, mostly  
dancing devils to mess around with and we lit off a few. We were  
starting to feel it, since the colours were magnified and sound got  
more and more intense.
 
My friends each lit up a cigarrette (I don't smoke cigarrettes) and we  
started to walk around. By now we were really feeling it. Suddenly, I  
got the biggest scare of my life: A security guard walked up with a  
flashlight and told us very strictly no smoking or using fireworks at  
the school. One of my friends, apparently forgetting we were all  
holding and on shrooms proceeded to tell him we were only smoking  
cigarrettes and not weed. He eventually walked on. I told my friend  
that he had just talked to a security guard since he had no clue what  
he'd just done.
 
We started to walk back to my friends place and on the way it really  
hit us. I personally find trees and plants to be by far the trippiest  
things to look at whilst shrooming, and this time was no exception. It  
was dark and foggy and the streets looked like something out of a  
fairy tail like with crooked trees and dim lamp posts. We saw two  
absolutely terrifing looking people in black robes and that's when we  
remembered: it was Halloween.
 
All the houses were decorated with creepy stuff and the streets were  
filled with dozens of people dressed in costume. You might think it  
would be scary, but on the contrary I felt quite welcome. When we were  
nearly home, I hallucinated this kid's family that I know that lives  
across the street from the house we were staying at. I turned my head  
because I didn't want to see any people I knew but when I looked back,  
no one was there.
 
We stepped into the basement and the walls were all swirling with  
moving patterns. With much difficulty I ate the remaining shrooms and  
smoked some more weed. It hit me right away and I realized this was  
more then triple the hardest I'd ever tripped on shrooms. We  
consecutively decided to embark on our main quest, the one we'd  
planned the entire night with: A trip to Queen Elizabeth park.
 
For those who don't know Vancouver's Queen E. park, nicknamed little  
mountain, it's essentielly a really really big hill with lots of  
trees, ponds, plants, and a public garden at the top. Very trippy stuff.
 
When we left I realised I had forgotten my iPod but I didn't even
care, I was in bliss. We saw and heard some fireworks which were  
spectacular on the way there. After what seemed like hours of walking,  
but was probably only about 30 minutes, we arrived a a gigantic field  
next to a massive curling arena that was recently built for the 2010  
olympics. This was my favorite part of the entire trip by far. It was  
surreal. The floodlights cast an erie glow on everything and the field  
looked like it went on for miles.  We were standing right in the  
middle of the field and the view was incredible. On our right was  
totallly open with a bunch of people lighting fireworks at the edge.  
To our left was this state of the art arena with massive floodlights  
gleaming down at us. Behind us was all uphill with dozens of houses  
that looked very similar, and before us was probably the best view of  
all:
 
A winding path through sparse trees and little hills led to an  
extremely busy street and just past the street was Queen E. park. I'd  
been there a hundred times before but I had absolutely no clue what  
was standing before me.
 
The trees all seemed alive and were layer with a thick fog spanning  
all the way to the top of little mountain. There was a road going all  
the up but no cars were on it. We all knew we had to get to the top at  
all costs. The only thing stopping us was the busy road. Now crossing  
roads is easy when sober but it's an intense challenge on  
hallucinogens. We waited until there was a huge break in traffic and  
we had plenty of time but we still all sprinted as fast as we could  
across the street.
 
We were finally there and it was amazing. We decided to ditch the road  
and hike up the side of the hill. At one point we got to a flat part  
and decided to lie down and look back at the city. The  
sky was bright orange, and it looked very smokey. Fireworks ere exploding  
everywhere and for a second I forgot that I was on planet earth, it  
was that trippy. Suddenly I got a phonecall from my parents. I made up  
a bunch of bs about where I was and nothing they said made much sense  
to me, I could barely understand what they were saying. After I hung  
up my friends applauded me for doing such a convincing job of talking  
to my parents.
 
We continued our journey to the top of Queen E, and along the way we  
passed a lake Which was very tempting to swim in, but we decided  
against it luckily since it was nearly below freezing. Suddenly we  
were there and my jaw litterally dropped:
There were a variety of paths all connected winding through the most  
lush plants and trees I had ever seen. In the very middle was a small  
clearing with mist covering the ground. Inside the clearing was the  
most epic tree I had seen or will ever see. It was bent a little bit  
over and the branches spanned across most of the clearing. It was as  
if every living thing in the park was connected to this tree and they  
all drew their energy from it. It was surrounded by a small fence and  
we were too mind blown to go into the clearing then. There was no one  
else to be seen in the garden so we chose a path to the far right. We  
saw some of the craziest looking plants we had ever seen. They're  
impossible to describe to anyone that wasn't there but they were  
comparable to the plants in the forest in James Cameron's movie  
"Avatar". The visuals were so intense that by now I was convinced I  
was on another planet.
 
A ways down the path, we came to a giant rock in the middle of the  
path with another path on either side. The rock had faces all over it  
and was apparently breathing. We chose the path to the right because  
foe some reason it had a gigantic handicapped person sign on the  
ground like one you'd see on a handicapped bathroom. This made us  
really laugh because we felt very handicapped being lost somewhere  
we'd been tons of times before. We walked through every path in the  
garden at least 10 times except for the magical clearing, and saw  
about fifteen more handicapped signs along the way for whatever reason  
laughing at each one because by now we were completely lost. After  
about two and a half hours of walking around aimlessly, marveling at  
the natural beauty of the plants, we decided to sit down at a bench  
that was right on top of the giant rock which gave us yet another  
breath taking view. We sat there for another hour or so talking about  
god knows what and just genuinely enjoying ourselves.
 
Finally we mustered up the courage to walk through the magical  
clearing, it was just too tempting. We stepped over the chain and  
right as we took our first few steps a voice yelled out "Hey are you  
guys with Alex" we hadn't see or heard another person since we got to  
the park so naturally this scared the fuck out of us. We ran through  
the clearing until we were far enough away from the voice. We all  
decided to go back to the field because we loved it there so much, but  
this time we took the long route so we would see every part of the  
park. We came to the view point area which was full of weird  
sculptures and benches and to our surprise: people. All their faces  
were a blur and none of them seemed to be moving. It was like someone  
had pressed pause on a tv. That place was really creepy so we left  
pretty quick and got to an area where the trees were very tall. My  
friends lit up another cigarrette and I wandered a bit away to check  
out an especially trippy tree. When I turned around my friends were  
nowhere to be seen. Worried I called out there names and as soon as  
they replied they became visible to me exactly where I looked before.  
It was as if they had blended in with the forest. Suddenly we saw two  
men walking very quickly towards us so we started walking away quickly  
but they seemed to be following us! We went completely out of our way  
to ditch them but it turned out they were just heading in the same  
direction as us, not following us.
 
We looked around to see where we had ended up and saw a giant sign the  
size of a bus stop with handicapped signs all over it. We tried  
reading it to figure out what was with all the handicapped signs, but  
it looked like gibberish, just a bunch of random lines and dots. I  
talked to my friends and both said that they had been unable to read a  
single word so we gave up on that. We walked for a few more minutes  
until we came to that terrifying street we crossed what seemed like  
months ago. This time it was deserted since it was about 3:00 am. We  
got to the field again and just wandered about aimlessy again until we  
saw a playground we hadn't seen last time. We sat there and talked  
about the crazy shut that had happened in the last 8 hours. We were  
still tripping but we decided to head home. When we got back we smoked  
some more weed just to renew our trip and we listened to music on our  
speakers. Eventually we realised how hungry we were so we went to 7/11  
to grab some food.
 
Inside 7/11 was probably the worst part of my trip for several  
reasons: It smelled aweful, it was way too bright, nothing looked  
good, everybody working looked really depressed and there were two  
really obnoxious guys in frilly fairy costumes talking really loud.  
Eventually I bought some pizza pops and my friends bought instant  
noodles. We got home and I cooked them right away. They tasted  
absolutely aweful so I gave them away to my friends. I realised I  
wasn't even that hungry. We talked for a while and listened to music  
and eventually all got tired and fell asleep.
 
That was the end of our trip and the end of my story, but not the end  
of my shrooming experainces. We all decided to make it a yearly  
tradition to go to Queen E. park on Halloween on shrooms and we also  
decided that the three of us would retrace our journey through the  
park sober one day when the weather gets better so we can finally  
figure out why there are handicapped signs everywhere!
 
Happy trippin' everyone.