By Ashley Day
Photos courtesy of sdzombiewalk.com
Would you like to kick off your Halloween weekend with a unique, creepy and potentially life-saving event?
This Saturday, Oct. 30, an event called Zombie Walk: San Diego will fulfill those exact yearnings. Take a drive down the I-15 or I-5 or carpool down with a group of friends to reach this stellar activity. Zombie Walk is a tradition that helps a different cause each walk. To take part in the activity, you arrive at the starting location dressed up as a zombie. The Zombie Walk leaders encourage people who are “interested in letting go of reality for a couple hours and having a great time.”
This is a free event and all ages are encouraged to participate. The starting location is at Balboa Park and the zombies are to meet at the fountain between the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center and San Diego Natural History Museum at 6 p.m. The walk starts at 6:15 p.m. sharp. Participants will walk around the area surrounding Balboa Park. Directly after the Balboa walk, another walk will take place in Little Italy, meeting in front of the Casbah at 8 p.m. and will parade down Kettner Avenue.
There is an after party for ages 21 and older starting at 9 p.m. at the Casbah taking place after the Little Italy mini-walk. The cover charge is $20, but a portion goes to Donate Life California, the organization that donates organs and body tissues of legal donors to those in need of transplants (quite a fitting and philanthropic for a hoard of living dead!).
Participants must adhere to a set of guidelines in order to participate in the Zombie Walk: You must come dressed as a zombie, no masks allowed, but makeup is strongly encouraged. No cell phones are permitted (since zombies do not use them!), no screaming (zombies grunt and moan), walk in a slow, dead manner, and do not vandalize public and private property. Also, be sure not to bother people that are not participating in the walk. These and all other guidelines and information about the walk can be found on sdzombiewalk.com