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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Zombies for Dessert

I realize that Halloween isn't a national holiday, but when it falls on a weekend day, shouldn't I have it off from work?  Nope, not today.  I was required to attend a meeting this evening from 6:00 to 7:30 P.M., and I went in ahead of time to do some grading and be "on call" in case I was needed to set up for the student presentations that were a part of the events.  While I was gone, Susan and the girls tended to the essential Halloween festivities.

Wanna know who these be-costumed beauties are?  Read on!

  • Susan took the girls to a residential facility for elderly people, who were handing out candy to treat-or-treaters today.
  • Then they went to the Prairie Hills Mall, whose businesses were giving out candy to kids in costumes.
  • Then they went to visit our friend Monica in her apartment, and she gave them candy, too.
  • Then they went to Treat Street at the Grand Dakota Lodge, at which local businesses had rented out and decorated the ballrooms and a series of hotel rooms.  As trick-or-treaters moved from spooky room to spooky room, people in costumes stood inside to hand out candy and/or to jump out from behind doorways or scream or act out an eerie scene or otherwise scare the children.  Hillary got scared when she spotted a man in a gorilla suit, so she screamed . . . which caused him to scream because he hadn't noticed her there, and her scream "freaked him out" (according to Hillary)!
  • Then Susan took the girls trick-or-treating at family members' houses: Dale and Mary's, Terry and Audrey's, and Pat and Kathy's.
  • Finally, they came home, and Susan got situated to dole out candy to trick-or-treaters at our house while the girls (and one of Abigail's friends) walked around our neighborhood to trick-or-treat.
The girls were home again by the time I returned from my meeting, and we all sat down to eat a supper of "bloody" (tomato) soup and chicken quesadillas on tortillas that Susan had cut to look like jack-o'-lanterns.  Speaking of: I told you, Faithful Reader, several days ago that I would post photos of the jack-o'-lanterns that the girls carved.  Here they are:

A little blurry, perhaps, but you get the idea.

Now, back to the girls' costumes:

a witch 

a pro tennis star

 Cleopatra

After we had eaten supper and the girls had gone to bed, I had a little Halloween treat of my own: watching the premiere of the AMC television series The Walking Dead, a show about survivors of a zombie epidemic in America.  The show is off to a great start with a terrific pilot, and it was an excellent and appropriate way to "celebrate" Halloween.  Boo!

4 comments:

  1. The girls posed nicely! I stayed home this year to hand out candy. I had 43 kiddos stop by. I took some of my left over candy to work. But, I still had a full bag and most of a second bag leftover, which I froze. No shortage of sweets in my house!

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  2. Apparently, we missed most of the neighborhood kids while we were out seeing other people. One neighbor said they ran out of candy -- but I had about a dozen kids while I was home. We have LOTS of candy leftover, in addition to all that the girls brought home!

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  3. We sorted candy once: the chocolate-based stuff to stay at home and the non-chocolate-based stuff (e.g., lollipops, Skittles, hard candies) to go to Susan's library candy dish.

    Now, after the braces went on, we sorted again: caramel and toffee and Butterfingers and other possible enemies of braces to go to Kevin's department conference rom and other stuff that Kevin and Susan like and/or that the girls could eat (e.g., without nuts or caramel) to stay at home.

    And we STILL have a mountain of candy at home, even after both sortings!

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  4. ....in the words of Homer Simpson...."Mmmmm, Caaannnndddyyyy".

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