Happy Halloween!

Tonight's the night we should have gone Trick or Treating, but for once I'm happy I live in a town with idiotic policies, because it's pouring rain right now, and there's no way I'd want to trudge through this in order to collect a pittance of candy. Seriously, I had some major hauls from Halloween when I was a kid. But a) I lived in Philadelphia, where houses are more densely packed together (unlike these sprawling cookie cutters around here) and b) people just gave out more then. Oh, and then there's c) no "schedule" for Trick or Treat. Start at dusk, go home when there's no candy left to collect. I'd seriously be out until 9, 10 and 11 'o clock at night some years, and I'd still have candy left when Easter rolled around.

We had a good time last night. Ryan quickly got into the groove of following "Issy" to the houses and saying "twick tweh tweat" to the people giving out candy. Of course, this was in between checking out everyone's mailbox. *sigh* I don't know what was up with that, but I had to put mail back in boxes a few times, and all I kept thinking is that looking through someone else's mail is a federal offense, and man I really hope the cops would believe me when I said it was my son that pulled the mail out of the boxes in the first place; I was just putting it back!

I took Leah along with me, and my mom came along with Molly, in case I needed help herding the kids from one house to another. But they were great. In fact, towards the end of the Trick or Treat route the kids were dragging major ass behind us. Even the dogs were getting pooped out. Weaklings. :P

Here are the costumes from this year! Alyssa was a princess on a unicorn, Ryan was Wow Wow Wubbzy, Dan was a pirate (arrrrrrrr; pillage and plunder me baby!), and I was myself. ;)