Silver Spring's 4th Annual Zombie Walk

This past Saturday night (October 27) we went to downtown Silver Spring to visit our favorite restaurant Thai Derm and to check out the annual Zombie Walk. It really is a blast and the event has grown exponentially over the past four years. It is a grass root event but a lot of the local merchants are beginning to buy into it. Even the AFI Silver hosted some great spooky films. Well, we had a great time checking out the multitude of zombies parading around the downtown area. Some of the costumes were just brilliant-including a few interesting pet zombies. If you have never been there you should put this event on your calendar for next year. It is a kid friendly event until 9 PM and there were lots of kids there in costume. After 9 PM it becomes an adult only event and kid zombies have to be put back in their cages for the rest of the evening.

This great event put me in a mind to compare downtown Bethesda to downtown Silver Spring. Both downtown areas are great and exciting places to spend time these days but it just seems to me that the crowds in Silver Spring are more relaxed and like to have more fun. One need only to walk past the fountain on Saturday night to see the incredibly diverse crowd of kids and adults dancing  together to some great hip hop/cha cha music. Well, I have said if before, downtown Silver Spring Rocks. I am glad that we can be a part of it.