Halloween 2007
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naomikritzerThe first Trick-Or-Treater arrived at 5:20. The second didn't show up until 6:20. The flood started at 6:30 -- between 6:30 and 7:30, we had 70 kids. The total for the night (I counted) was about 165 kids. The last ones were at 9:30 and were, in fact, tiny little kids, not teenagers, who appeared to have just come out since there wasn't much candy in their pumpkins. I think they may have had parents who worked very late and couldn't take them out until around then.
We get a lot of trick-or-treaters on our block, because down the block from us is a house that does a huge, elaborate haunted house with giant inflatables and homemade monsters and strobe lights and the works. They start putting stuff up Labor Day weekend and some of it stays up year round -- they are really into it. People come from all over and some of them hit the rest of the block since they're here. As a result, we get a fair number of teenagers, but most of them are elaborately dressed up and very polite.
There were tons of witches, pirates, and princesses. There were also tons of costumed parents this year, including a fairy with enormous wings and an orange-jumpsuited jail inmate. My favorite costumes on kids included an octopus, Richard Nixon, George Bush (sadly, those two were not together), the bowler-hatted guy from Monopoly who handed me a "Get Out of Jail Free" card when I gave him candy, and the sunny day (she had an enormous hat with orange and yellow cones coming out to be rays of the sun, plus a sky-blue dress with little fuzzy bits of polyester stuffing pinned on.
Molly dressed as Nancy Drew. Kiera went out as Belle from Beauty and the Beast but with fairy wings. Kiera, in fact, was Belle with fairy wings all day yesterday and got lots of attention on our errands around town.
We get a lot of trick-or-treaters on our block, because down the block from us is a house that does a huge, elaborate haunted house with giant inflatables and homemade monsters and strobe lights and the works. They start putting stuff up Labor Day weekend and some of it stays up year round -- they are really into it. People come from all over and some of them hit the rest of the block since they're here. As a result, we get a fair number of teenagers, but most of them are elaborately dressed up and very polite.
There were tons of witches, pirates, and princesses. There were also tons of costumed parents this year, including a fairy with enormous wings and an orange-jumpsuited jail inmate. My favorite costumes on kids included an octopus, Richard Nixon, George Bush (sadly, those two were not together), the bowler-hatted guy from Monopoly who handed me a "Get Out of Jail Free" card when I gave him candy, and the sunny day (she had an enormous hat with orange and yellow cones coming out to be rays of the sun, plus a sky-blue dress with little fuzzy bits of polyester stuffing pinned on.
Molly dressed as Nancy Drew. Kiera went out as Belle from Beauty and the Beast but with fairy wings. Kiera, in fact, was Belle with fairy wings all day yesterday and got lots of attention on our errands around town.
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Date: 2007-11-01 05:30 pm (UTC)My husband dressed as a WWII soldier to escort my daughter around. Granted, he does WWII re-enactment, so assembling the costume was easy, but he still made more of an effort than the teenagers!