HALLOWEEN

Well Happy Halloween all and thank heavens it is over cause it was a very busy day. When I found out that they held a Trunk or Treat here in Soda and it was something that I did through Recreation I wasn't very excited about it for a few reasons. One is that I loved Trick or Treating door to door and when you live in an area that is like 20 years behind everywhere else and people still trust people and it is relatively safe why not go door to door. Secondly I don't think that it should be a city function. They are normally put on by different church groups or schools which is very nice because there are less kids and more people are able to afford to give out candy. As it was we had about 800 kids show up for the Trunk or Treat and only 20 trunks which are mainly done by businesses because families can't afford to buy candy for that many kids so less and less people do trunks and because Halloween was on a Friday lots of people that normally do trunks (yes it is always the same people year after year) were going out of town. Even though there were very few trunks and I wasn't super excited to do it, it turned out rather well and we were very lucky with the weather to have it be relatively warm which was nice. Halloween was a very long day for me because not only did I do the Trunk or Treat I just mentioned I also put on a little carnival for the young kids which was a lot of fun. Not as many kids as I had hoped showed up but it was still fun other than the working 12 hours that day part. But I wanted to keep myself as busy as possible all month so I didn't just sit and dwell on why I didn't want to do Trunk or Treat. I was also able to put on a pumpkin carving contest which was way sweet; we had 15 pumpkins turned in and the ones in this post were a few of my favorites. Also here is a cute little picture of Elliette in her Halloween outfit being held by Jack from The Nightmare Before Christmas.