We really did have a completely fabulous Halloween this year.
We started out early. We were supposed to meet our neighbors out front at 3:00 to get started... but we were a little behind and still trying to figure out a couple key costume items at the last minute.
We finally joined them about 15 minutes late.
So, I present to you, Long John Silver...
According to the book (Treasure Island, which Alex had just read), Long John Silver is missing a leg. However, that was a hard thing to duplicate, so Alex decided that he could have a peg leg. Well... wasn't sure how to pull that off... so at the last second, Jeff sacrificed one of his old brown socks to the cause. He pulled it over Alex's shoe and pants to create the peg leg. The parrot (Cap'n Flint) just wasn't going to happen. I bought a toy parrot at the thrift store the other day but we never got around to modifying it to sit on his shoulder. Oh well... Alex made a fine Long John Silver anyway, complete with the "arghh" pirate face (which I wished he hadn't insisted on in each photo... sigh).And now, on to Tinker Bell...
I had tried desperately to talk her into picking another costume other than Tinker Bell. We had had such nice weather last year on Halloween that I was SURE that we would have snow this year. I really wanted her to pick something else that we could add more layers to so she would be warm. I honestly had no clue that we would have an absolutely perfect weather day for trick-or-treating (70 degrees out that day!!!). No parkas necessary! She loved her costume and looked completely adorable. :-)So, here is the crew we set out with...
We headed out to the retirement home we went to last year to meet up with another friend and her daughter. It is a great place to start our evening. The kids get a bunch of candy right off the bat... plus they have games, face painting, crafts and a haunted house.Here Clara paints a pumpkin while everyone else goes through the haunted house...
Clara went through the haunted house last year, but refused this year. I don't think I blame her. The basement of a nursing home is creepy enough to me without the added spiderwebs and skeletons! :-)From there the new, bigger crew headed out to trick-or-treat some of the local businesses. My neighbor and her boys split off to head toward home. We hit another business or two before heading toward the house of Clara's friend from dance. Before we got there, Alex and Jeff peeled off to go home and start baking pizzas for dinner.
We met up with Clara's friend and we trick-or-treated our way through the neighborhood toward our house. At one point we passed a pub that waved the girls in to get candy, which prompted the joke... so, Dorothy, Tinker Bell and Sleeping Beauty walk into a bar... but that's as far as we got with it. :-)
At this point, it was dark enough for Clara to turn on her wings...
although, you can't really tell it in this photo.We came home around 7:30 for pizza.... with all of our trick-or-treating companions joining us. The kids had a blast! The boys built with Legos and played with their glo-sticks outside, while the girls played dolls in Clara's room or out on the deck. All of the parents got to hang out and chat which was very nice. Finally everyone had headed home by about 10:30. The kids were EXHAUSTED but still pretty keyed up so we wound down by watching a bit of Ghost Hunters Live before herding them off to bed around 11:15.
You know... I think Clara may have been right... it was our best Halloween ever! :-)
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