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[Guest]

How was your Halloween?

Ours went well. Our two exhausted and well-fed kids just went to bed, exhausted daddy and I are having a drink.

It was cold but very clear. Good weather. We spent an hour and a half roaming the neighborhood by their elementary school for candy. Kids needed one stop at the car to dump candy into bags we stashed in order to get more goodies.

We finished at our church for a "treats in the trunks" event. Good to see everyone, good to relax for a bit.

We managed to keep track of our kids in the dark through glow sticks. I attached some to our son's helmet and his pumpkin (his shoes already light up). He was Mega-man, defender of the digital world.

Our daughter went as an angel complete with feathery wings and somewhat crooked halo. I found blue glow-stick earrings and a necklace to complete her look. She was well-lighted, safe, and fashionable.

We saw on our travels: witches, ghosts, devils, pumpkins, princesses, angels, superheroes, assorted monsters, Indiana Jones, Napoleon Dynamite, a Playboy bunny . . .

At one house the kids were asked if they'd rather have candy or whoopie cushions. Our kids went for whoopie, and have since put them on every surface in the house in order for mom and dad to sit, step, or lean on. So our house was pretty noisy before they went to sleep.

So how was your night? Did you dress up or just chaperone? Is Halloween still enjoyable from the other side of it all?

Join us in a drink, chaperones. Put your feet up, relax. Job well done, everyone.

 

[Kirk482002]

Wiped out of candy

I've lived in this house close to 30 years, but never went through as much candy as i did tonight. I had to call my older daughter to get more for me.
14 bags of Twix, Kit Kats, Snickers, Reeses Cups, Milky Ways, and Three Musketeers were gone by 6:30 and had to buy 12 more.
The biggest theme for costumes tonight was Darth Vader. Some were impressive.

The growing fad I've noticed in the last few years is kids coming without any costume at all and just holding out a bag to you.

One final gripe...
Some of the kids seemed to have '5 o'clock shadow' and had voices deeper than mine.

The 26 bags of candy ran out at 8:30 so it was 'lights out' then.

Hope everyone had a good evening...

 

[~photoguy~]

only had one little guy go out (on his own)
the other is too old/tall/buzy

had about 100 small costumed kidlets at our door .. down abit from prior years
(this led to about 5000 barks from the goddam dog)

I agree the older/non-costumed kids are annoying ... they get lumps of coal

now the lights are out and its time to crawl into bed

done for another yr

 

[cloudy]

The little Spiderman decided to NOT be Spiderman this year, but to be a skeleton instead - complete with a mask that covered his whole head, and gloves that had the skeleton hands on the backs.

We hit the house of a coworker of my husband's first, then the fire department, then TWO outlet malls, Walmart, and finally, the house of another old friend on the way home. He has more candy than he'll ever eat (he's not much of a candy eater).

We had to drop dad off early (too much excitement, I suppose ), and we didn't get home until around 9:30. Was a warm night, upper 60's.

I'm VERY glad it's over with for another year.

 

[simply_cyn]

Considering my lil "monster girl" (Frankenstein gone funky ... that was the coin phrase on the catalogue page that we purchased the costume from) was running 103 temperature this morning, it wasn't too bad.

She had missed Halloween two years ago for the same reason (Bad luck, I'd call it) so I drugged her up and let her go out tonight. Our church (yup, believe it or not ... I AM angelic) has an annual Fall Festival so we opted for that tonight instead of trick-or-treating out in the cold.

I'm wondering what kind of price I'm going to pay for my great motherly decision tonight ... tomorrow ...

 

[sophia jane]

Our night went alot better than I had anticipated. We had half expected no trick or treaters, from what my mom and others and had said, and we had half expected our kids to get no candy.
Not so.
First we went to Sonic for free hot dogs for the kids. Then off to great-grandma's house where they each got ALOT of candy, and then off to a neighbor of hers. At this point, youngest and I were dropped off back at home to pass out candy. Youngest is not quite two and was more than happy with a little candy and a costume.
The boys went with dad around the neighborhood, came back when their buckets were full (didn't take long).
We ran out of candy around 7 and my oldest offered to let us pass out his loot, which we did, until we could turn out the light.

A very, very good Halloween, made even better by expecting the worst. The sight of my daughter twirling around the living room in her peacock fairy costume all the while saying "precious" made the whole thing worth it.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Had a blast. The SO and I went to two different parties, one on Saturday and one this evening. I went as myself - a black horse - and confirmed my opinion that you humans really miss out not having tails. A tail is, amongst other things, an excellent barometer of the general level of alcohol consumption; the further into the party one gets, the more people yield to irresistable urge to touch or tug it and to make increasingly lewd double entendres. Fun for all the family.

At one of the parties we had a mummy race. This consisted of forming five-man teams who raced to have four of them wrap the fifth in a roll of toilet paper each. It was a great laugh as they ended up with Ann Bolyn (with a gaping wound from the axe), an elf maiden, a semi-leprous zombie and a Renaissance swordsman playing maypole around an increasingly mummified medieval poet. Highly recommended.

Shanglan

 

[sweetnpetite]

mine is still awake and bouncing off the walls. We don't have any niquil or anything. It's 12?19. I'm so tired. Any advice to get him to sleep?

 

[BlackShanglan]

mine is still awake and bouncing off the walls. We don't have any niquil or anything. It's 12?19. I'm so tired. Any advice to get him to sleep?

Open "Atlas Shrugged" and read out loud. Just be seated and have your head in a position to fall on something soft.

 

[yui]

Open "Atlas Shrugged" and read out loud. Just be seated and have your head in a position to fall on something soft.

Bwahahahahahaha! I you, Pony Boy!

Seconded, Sweet.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Bwahahahahahaha! I you, Pony Boy!

And I love you, evil woman. Is it wrong that I now have a bizarre fetishistic image rising in my mind of Yui in a Darth Vader getup intoning "Surrender to the dark side of the Force"?

Shanglan

 

[sweetnpetite]

No need to resort to the big guns.

He's sleeping

 

[Boxlicker101]

My wife and I are in a new house in a new subdivision so this was the first Halloween here. About fifty kids came to the door, most of them small and cute, one about six feet tall and burly, accompanied by a bunch of young kids. I gave out small packets of chips instead of candy. The advantage of that is that we will snack on the leftovers for the next few weeks without rotting our teeth. A fun time and a nice start for the new house.

 

[English Lady]

Ok, heres the Brit girl halloween experience.

Beth dressed up in her little witches hat for an hour or so, and we had 4 lots of trick or treaters -around 10 children in all and 3 of those were around 15/16 years old!!!
The last knock was about 7pm, we got no more after that.

that was it

 

[cantdog]

Decent number of kids this year, and some lizards and winged creatures, and a five-year old frogula with eyes on top of his head and vamp teeth, green arms and a black cape lined with red satin. One little princesswas so afraid of my rubber half-mask that I had to remove it.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sysladobsis/CountFrogula.jpg

One pumpkin, to the left, was carved into a silhouette of a raven. It was about crow-sized, in the end, because it was a biggish pumpkin. The deeper you carve the flesh, the more glow comes through, so the outline of the bird was limned in yellow light.

The other was a smallish pumpkin which had a barbie head protruding from the top, and stood on long slender barbie legs with high heeled boots. Barbie's hair was shiny purple and served to obscure the nails and pins used to suspend her in the hollow gourd. I had to use a bicycle headlamp in there, to avoid toasting or melting the doll. The front of the pumpkin itself had a cat outlined. Barbie arms stuck out to the sides. The effect was as if barbie had worn a pumpkin as a costume. The top of the gourd, with the stem, was a hat for Barbie's head, ignominiously affixed by drywall screws.

 

[SeaCat]

No Halloween here last night. We held it the night before and while it wasn't easy it was one of the best halloweens I have ever had.

Cat

(My wearing Vampire Fangs to work went over quite well though. A lot of people seem to think they look natural on me. )

 

[CharleyH]

How was your Halloween?

Ours went well. Our two exhausted and well-fed kids just went to bed, exhausted daddy and I are having a drink.

It was cold but very clear. Good weather. We spent an hour and a half roaming the neighborhood by their elementary school for candy. Kids needed one stop at the car to dump candy into bags we stashed in order to get more goodies.

We finished at our church for a "treats in the trunks" event. Good to see everyone, good to relax for a bit.

We managed to keep track of our kids in the dark through glow sticks. I attached some to our son's helmet and his pumpkin (his shoes already light up). He was Mega-man, defender of the digital world.

Our daughter went as an angel complete with feathery wings and somewhat crooked halo. I found blue glow-stick earrings and a necklace to complete her look. She was well-lighted, safe, and fashionable.

We saw on our travels: witches, ghosts, devils, pumpkins, princesses, angels, superheroes, assorted monsters, Indiana Jones, Napoleon Dynamite, a Playboy bunny . . .

At one house the kids were asked if they'd rather have candy or whoopie cushions. Our kids went for whoopie, and have since put them on every surface in the house in order for mom and dad to sit, step, or lean on. So our house was pretty noisy before they went to sleep.

So how was your night? Did you dress up or just chaperone? Is Halloween still enjoyable from the other side of it all?

Join us in a drink, chaperones. Put your feet up, relax. Job well done, everyone.

Well, my idea of trick and treat is apparently more treat than yours.

 

[Guest]

Well, my idea of trick and treat is apparently more treat than yours.

Well, I didn't discuss my costume, now did I?

And of course, treats for the grown-ups can't happen until the kids go to sleep.



(I really love Halloween)