Halloween Weekend Recap
Halloween was on a Saturday this year so I actually had the day off. I worked Friday before Halloween until 7pm and wore a pair of my horns. People kept doing a double-take and laughing.
Saturday I woke up exhausted but finally made it over to our friend Rand's house around 4pm. Since we're in an apartment, no one does trick-or-treating here and we always go over to his house so I can hand out candy.
Got out the pumpkins from previous years and added to it with three more. (We use the fake ones now since we all spend so much time carving them, it's a shame to throw them away in a few days. So now we save them and are up to 11 pumpkins for the display. It's our very own pumpkin patch!)
Here's the outside decorations. Couple tombstones, webbing, candles in the window and of course, pumpkins!
And here's the collection of all the carved pumpkins we have so far:
I dressed up of course - in my old enchantress outfit since I didn't have cash to find something new this year - and had fun handing out treats. The kids came in HUGE clumps though this year so I didn't really get time to look at everyone's costumes very well. There were a lot of fairies and Disney princesses (I joked the Disney Store must have had a great sale) but most were just random, one-off costumes. We had two little kids try to come into the house this year the first of whom actually broke down crying when her mom picked her up and carried her away. It was funny. We also had two younger girls in wheelchairs which I hadn't seen come to the door in previous years. One of whom put these GIANT fairy wings on the back of her chair. I thought that was cute.
We ran out of candy on the last surge of kids around 9pm. I hadn't seen any for about a half an hour and was getting ready to pack it up when three big groups came by last minute and finished off the candy. I think Rand had maybe 8 bags of candy bars and we went through them all. (Twix, 100 Grand, Snickers, and Heath.)
Sunday morning it was back to work at 8:30am for me. I thought the extra hour of sleep might help but I was still really miserably tired Sunday. Just felt awful and worn out. Had a pretty busy day though so it went relatively quickly. Got home, napped and then ran out later that afternoon for some food.
Today thankfully I'm off work so I have a few things to do and just catch up on stuff that I didn't get to last week working all those days in a row. Went to bed really early last night so hopefully I can stave off the tiredness and actually get things done.
Hope everyone had a fun Halloween.
~ blue skies ahead for
:: miss m ::
at 11/02/2009 10:52:00 AM ~
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