Tuesday, September 23rd was the first day of fall and Arrowhead students got a glimpse as the trees on campus started to change from green to a vibrant orange.

Rachel Thorn, a senior at Arrowhead High School, says she noticed the trees changing on her way home from school.

“I was driving home one day and noticed that most of the trees had huge orange patches and were also turning red. It surprised me how fast the leaves had changed on all the trees,” says Thorn. “I can’t wait to make piles of leaves for my dog. She always seem to love that.”

Morgan Merbeth, a senior at Arrowhead High School, says she knows it’s fall because the tree outside her window always turns bright orange.

“I always know it’s fall when the tree turns orange, also when my mom starts to put on Halloween decorations in the house; she always seems to do that early,” says Merbeth.

Merbeth lives on her farm and says that she is also preparing all of her animals for a cold winter as the temperature seems to drop.

“As soon as it hits the first day of fall, I know that I start to leave my dog inside because he has a kennel outside but the nights are becoming cooler,” says Merbeth.

Wednesday, October 1st, is the first day that haunted houses start to open up around the county and state from which Arrowhead students Merbeth and Thorn will attend.

Thorn says that she wants to go to the Waukesha Expo Center’s haunted house which opens the first weekend of October ranging from prices $15-$45.

The Waukesha Expo Center offers three different houses to go into as well as speed passes which cost an extra $15 and allow you to “skip” the lines.

“I always go to the Waukesha Expo Center for haunted houses every year. Each year it’s always something different and I definitely always get scared there,” says Thorn.

Merbeth says that she plans to go to a haunted corn maze this year with her family and her boyfriend.

“It’s a tradition every year that we take my brother and sister to a haunted corn maze,” says Merbeth. “It’s not too scary for them and it’s also fun for my mom and I.”

Merbeth says another family tradition following the corn maze is making homemade caramel apples.

“Each year as fall starts to set in, we go apple picking and bring them back home and make homemade caramel and put it on the apple with candy sprinkles,” says Merbeth.

Merbeth says the recipe was passed down from her great-grandma and that they continue to make it every year and hope to pass it down to the next generation.