Halloween in the Swamp Returns to Cypress Gardens – Holy City Sinner
Cypress Gardens will host its annual Halloween in the Swamp for three nights: Thursday, Oct. 16; Friday, Oct. 17; and Saturday, Oct. 18. The event will run from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. each night at 3030 Cypress Gardens Road in Moncks Corner.
Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, at www.cypressgardens.info. All tickets must be purchased online in advance, as no tickets will be sold at the gate.
Halloween in the Swamp will feature activities for adults and children, including a marshmallow roast, storytelling, food trucks and kids’ games. General admission is $5 per person for ages 6 and up. Children 5 and under are free.
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This past weekend, there was an ultrarunner race in Denver called the Taco Bell 50K, which is 31 miles. It included mandatory stops at 10 area Taco Bells, where you had to order and consume Taco Bell.
Here’s how it works:
You have to order something at NINE of the 10 Taco Bells, and you’ve gotta actually eat the food. That includes one Chalupa Supreme or one Crunchwrap Supreme by the fourth stop . . . and one Burrito Supreme or one Nachos BellGrande by the eighth stop.
You need to finish the 31 miles within 11 hours. You need to keep all your receipts and wrappers . . . and “drinks do not count as food.”
Naturally, this is a very challenging race for your DIGESTIVE system . . . but you’ve gotta keep it down. They have a zero-tolerance policy on vomiting. If you do, you’re immediately disqualified.
And you’re BANNED from on-course stomach medicines, including “Pepto, Pepcid AC, Alka-Seltzer, and Mylanta.”
You ARE able to use the bathroom as much as you’d like, but you can only use Taco Bell restrooms . . . along with one other approved public toilet.
The Taco Bell 50K is in its eighth year, and this year’s happened on Saturday. They haven’t announced a winner or any final numbers, but they were expecting around 600 participants. And yeah, it’s a self-aware, tongue-in-cheek event.
For the record, Taco Bell isn’t affiliated with this in any way, and they won’t even comment on it. The organizers say they believe that it’s probably hung up by their legal team, because if they endorse it, they may open themselves up to liability issues. But they probably don’t mind the publicity.
