Halloween

Halloween is one of our major holidays. Basically we are in costume and out of the house for most of the day. This year Bear went as a T-Rex Kitty-cat (he insisted). Wolf was Annikin Skywalker. I was a school girl and Dragon went as the Black Knight from Monty Python. It is a costume I made for him several years ago and it always gets rave reviews. As usual all of the costumes were home made or at least home gathered.

We first went to visit a good friend of ours at around 2:30, then off to lunch at Costco with some of our friends. After that we all caravaned down to the Wharf and went trick-or-treating there with some more friends. We ended up with group consisting of a T-Rex Kitty-cat, Annikin, a school girl, a fairy, the Phantom of the Opera, a Renaissance lady, Freakazoid, Awesome Girl and a witch.

It was sort of a shame that they didn't have the costume contest and free pictures this year, but it was still fun.

Next we headed back to Dragon's store, went to the Harvest Festival put on by a local church in the parking lot. The boys got to go down a huge slide, bounce in a bounce house, and play a bunch of carnival games for candy prizes, all for free! They had a great time. We took a quick break to eat something and then Dragon closed the store and we went trick-or-treating in a popular local neighborhood. Much candy was had by all, but Bear wasn't up to the haunted house one family always sets up.

Finally we loaded everyone up into the car and headed down to Pacific Avenue for the HUGE block party that goes on every year for Halloween. The energy is incredible, the costumes are great and it's just plain fun. Wolf was getting a bit tired of it all by that time, but both boys were troopers and we ended up getting home at around 11 pm.