Alright, now we're off to find food! To Subway! Oh. It's closed. How about Colossol Burger! Oh. It's closed. How about ummm... ok, I guess we're going to the Village Cafe.

Erik ordered Beef Stew in a Bread Bowl (4.99). I got Chicken Fingers (6.79). (Chickens have fingers? Ew!) We split a large coke. The total was 17.02 with tax. While waiting for our food, we noticed some Taco Bell items in the warmer. Since Village Caf� doesn�t serve Taco Bell, we could only assume the itmes belong to employees.

Up to this point, we hadn�t seen any of the Fright Fest attractions that were advertised on the Six Flags web site. (A total of 10 activities including a Haunted House, Corn Maze, Pumpkin Painting and Trick or Treating.) I asked the Village Caf� employees where I could find a park map. All three of them behind the counter looked at me blankly. Finally, one pointed to a supervisor. I went over and asked her the same questions, and got the same response: blank stare. After a few seconds, she asked if I�d tried the candy shop. Yes. Then she told me they had them back at the entrance but didn�t know of anyplace else. How handy. We decided to trek back to the Main Gate after lunch, so we grabbed our food and sat down.

The Village Caf� has an inside seating area that can be shuttered with two big garage doors. The walls are painted with childlike hills, a mountain and some rounded apple trees. There were three strips of light bulbs along the ceiling but only one strip in back was partially lighted, so the room was a bit dim, mostly lit by natural light from outdoors. There was a Candy Crane, an ATM matchine, BBQ sauce stains on the wall and our picnic table was sticky. We tried not to touch it too much.

Erik�s stew was tasty, and a decent price at 4.99, but the sourdough bread bowl was a little undercooked and too doughy. My chicken fingers and fries were overcooked, dry and incredibly greasy. Also, the fries had zero flavoring. I should have requested a salt packet, but normally I don�t add seasoning to my food, so I didn�t think to ask.

I'd heard horrible reviews from other TRs about Enchanted Village food, but decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and try it myself. What we found was that the food really is terrible and overpriced. We both spent the rest of the afternoon feeling oogie from the grease overdose and wishing we�d stopped at the Safeway deli instead of giving Six Flags another 17 bucks, in exchange for an all day stomach ache.

After lunch, we headed for the entrance to find a park map and hopefully find out about the elusive Fright Fest activities. On the walk back to the front, we found a giant wall map of the Park, but no handouts.

We stop at May Lake to feed the ducks. They have big yellow gumball machines that dispense duck food, so we grab a couple handfulls. Oddly, it isn't just ducks we attract.

It got really weird, scary, and sad really fast.

Either nobody feeds these guys, or they�re just really greedy. It was scary how they were willing to crawl out of the water over other fish for food. The water was gross too. Dirty garbage floating everywhere, fish and ducks fighting for food� just sad�