Halloween....ha ha ha

Saturday night was the first time in a long time that I have been trick or treating. We got the kids all dressed up as bikers (see the pictures here)and set out on our Halloween adventure. I learned alot about Halloween this year:

1. Halloween now starts before nightfall. I thought we would be "early" at 6PM, nope...we were running late.

2. Most people no longer go all out for halloween. In fact a great number of houses just had bowls of cand on the porch for youngsters to come up and get. What is the fun in that?

3. You now have to cover much more ground to get a decent (sack full) amount of candy. A portion of a subdivision and a trunk or treat and the bags were not even half full!

4. Why trunk or treat??? That just seems like the lazy way.

5. Halloween now ends earlier, probably because it starts earlier. By 8PM we could not find any more candy =(

So next year I will be prepared. We will start trick or treating before nightfall, and we will cover the ENTIRE subdivison...and then some. CANDY! CANDY! CANDY!

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