Happy Halloween Everyone!!!

This was Robyn, Cinnamon and my first Halloween in Nova Scotia, so we weren’t really sure what to expect.  At our last house in Burlington, we were at the end of a dead end street so we didn’t get too many kids trick or treating (11 n 2010 to be exact).  This year we figured we’d get a lot more kids since we’re in a nice neighbourhood with 2 schools a street over but it looks like we were wrong.  We had only 14 kids come by.

I was pretty generous with my candy handouts and still have a ton of Tootsie Rolls and Rockets left to eat.  OK, part of my generosity was due to me being unable to see properly in my Gumby costume, but I was still trying to give a healthy amount.  The temperature is -1 right now but that shouldn’t effect kids going out to get free candy.  I remember going out in the snow with a winter coat under my costume.  I also remember running between houses and filling pillow cases with candy and not running out until Valentines Day.

Alas, I think times have changed and we’ll never see the numbers we used to.  People now are too afraid to let their kids head out and enjoy Halloween and that makes me sad, it seems Halloween is on the decline.  I hope this day is still around when I have kids, this is one of my favourite holidays (if you can call it a holiday).  I love that with a little ingenuity you can be anyone or anything you want for one day a year.

Here are a few shots from our house this Halloween, I think I did a pretty good job on my Jack Skellington (From ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’) Jack O’ Lantern (Pumpkin).

Enjoy!!!

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