The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Last Saturday Jason and I borrowed a friend's car and

took a little day trip to Sleepy Hollow, NY. The drive along the Hudson River is absolutely beautiful this time of year with all the leaves changing to wide variety of colours.

Every October in the Village of Sleepy Hollow they put on special events, like Haunted Hayrides and Legend Evening, to celebrate Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". We didn't spend the evening in Sleepy Hollow because all the events tickets were sold out but it was still fun just to walk around. It was a little rainy and foggy but that just added to the spooky atmosphere.

One of the things we enjoyed the most was walking through Sleepy Hollow's Old Dutch Church Cemetery. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in America and it was really neat to see the gravesites of soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War and Washington Irving himself.

"It's all dark and dead inside!"

They had a whole bunch of unbelievable gigantic mausoleums for all the dead rich people. The Rockefellers actually had a house nearby and put a lot of money into the town, including commissioning Matisse to design some church stainded glass windows that are still there. The window on this "small" mausoleum is broken and you can look inside...which really creeped me out.

The walk around the cemetary was actually really beautiful. It's amazing how many varieties of trees they have all growing together. I guess that's what you get when you aren't limited to only those trees that can survive -40 degree winters.

This doesn't belong to anyone famous. I just had to take a picture of it because it's the creepiest headstone I've ever seen.

Surprisingly, no one else was around to take this picture for us. Jason actually made us put away the camera when anyone passed because he thought we looked "creepy" having such a good time in a cemetery.