Let me be clear: I've never seen The Walking Dead, Zombieland, or World War Z. I couldn't tell you the names of any Zombie books or comics or characters or whatever there is, but when I heard that that Lincoln was hosting a Zombie Walk, I just had to check it out. It is because I have this thing about watching people do crazy stuff. It probably stems from my childhood: I had a brother who liked to give our mother heart attacks. Rather, I had a brother who liked to do crazy things that would give our mother heart attacks. Now I have a bit of a compulsion for seeing the unexpected.
I first heard about Zombie walks a year ago while we were in Pittsburgh, but we missed the event and I've been curious about them ever since.
I'm not really sure what I expected when we first walked into the conference center that was hosting the event, but, I'm a little ashamed to say, I was a little nervous when we first arrived. The lights were dimmed inside the building and there were some very "well endowed" scantly clad women doing what I think was their interpretation of a zombie belly dance on a stage. The low lights certainly gave off an eerie effect and it put all three of us- myself, my mom, and G a bit nonplussed My 16 month year old was the only one in the group who appeared non disturbed.
But then they invited everyone outside to participate in a costume contest and in the daylight I realized that we were surrounded by everyday people who were just there to have a fun time playing an adult version of make believe.
Though there might have been a few that were a little too "into it."
The grand finale of the event was a two mile long Zombie Walk through the streets of Lincoln culminating in a battle where the "resistance" shot their nerf guns at zombies until they were eventually overrun.
