I love Halloween. Next to Christmas and Easter (for obvious reasons), it is my favorite holiday. I consider it MY holiday. So, in typical weekend intelligence fashion, here are the highlights!Halloween!
Yup, that's the big highlight of the weekend. I got home a little early from work, and got all the decorations out for the evening. The door archway was laced with orange cluster lights, a blacklight was set in the front door light fixture and a foam jack-o-lantern sat on the doorstep. In the front window, we had purple cluster lights strung and hanging low with a drape of creepy netting-like cloth and a blacklight to set it off. The bushes in the front had a fog machine and a strobe light in them, two large tombstones and some graveyard fencing. A jolly roger and a scary wide-eyed face were carved out of some pumpkins and sat by the tree. The whole setup was topped off with a small stereo playing an endless CD of creepy sounds and people screaming. As for costumes, we all went as pirates this year: I have a pirate costume I've had for years now, Colin decided to get a pirate costume, we bought a cute pirate costume for Clara, and D was able to get a costume for the first time in years.
The daylight picture doesn't do it so much justice, but you could see the house from the corner of the block after sunset! The house was so creepy, that some of the littler kids were too scared to come up to the doorstep. People took pictures of the house and pictures of Clara and picture of them with me and my big bottle of rum! As for taking the kids around, I took Clara down one side of the street before sunset, and she got all worn out and needed me to carry her back. After she got a "taste" of why we were going door-to-door, she went out with D for a second go around after dark, and made out like a bandit. Hell, some houses let her take handfuls of candy out of the bowl by herself. That's right, give the Cute One all of your candy, humans. :P Colin went out with a bunch of his friends before I could get back with Clara, and still made out like a bandit.
While they were all out, I held down the fort: reassuring scared little kids that it was all fun and scaring high-schoolers that came to the door. One of them knocked and I opened the door from a hiding spot in the downstairs bathroom. When he was all "WTF" I slammed the door shut and got a decent shriek outta him. Was sure to give him candy. Another one I pounded on and yelled from the other side of the door, then said in a scruffy, pirate voice, "Who let ye out? Git back in yer cage afore I whip yer agin!" just before opening the door. The two girls were visibly shaken LOL. The way I see it, if you're gonna go trick-or-treating as a teenager, you gotta A) be ready to explain your costume if you're not really dressed up and B) be ready to take a little bit of harmless trickery. ;P
At any rate, a good showing in our neighborhood, the kids were coming starting around 7 and didn't completely let up until about 10, when we did a quick tear-down before any real witching hour mischief could happen. With Halloween on the decline in recent years, I find it comforting to see it so alive and well in my neighborhood. For all you photophiles reading this, here is the link to the photobucket album for this years Halloween.
Got several on-site assignments this upcoming week, as well as the national elections and typical daily craziness. Hopefully I'll get in a word edgewise. ^^
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