Christmas is Peter's holiday (heck, he's ALREADY playing Christmas tunes!) - I guess you could say Halloween is mine?
So after last nite's great party, we moved a bunch of the props and stuff out front - the smoke machine, the big spider, the pig-man's-head-in-liquid-filled-jar, etc. I fired up a bunch of scary soundtrack stuff on the iPod with computer speakers. Here's how things were looking as the kids came around the corner of the neighbor's full driveway to our place...
We got a lot of great feedback - lots of "ooooh cool", or "oh, we have to do that!" or just kids who were too spooked to come up at full throttle "gotta get me more candy" speed. Some had to have their parents come up with them. (Remember, we were cranking scary sounds, so that really helped!) The breeze was blowing just right - so that was blowing all the shredded garbage bag streamers around, and Brett was firing off the smoke machine.
I caught a lot of parents standing in front of Craig & Lisa's next door while their kids ran up, eying our place with a touch of suspicion - because we were new? because we looked more scary than other houses? because of the noise? the dark porch their babies would be walking up? perhaps the scary zombie propped on a hay bale in the front landscaping?
Let's take a closer look at that scary zombie... Hey, did it just move?
RAAAAAAAAAR! That was me! I was having SO MUCH FUN! I had to dial it back for some of the kids, taking of my mask, or waving real friendly to them. Others I was telling to give me their candy, or I'd sloooowly turn my head to follow them as they walked past me (really fun when the parents weren't aware and the kids were terrified!! Heh heh!) I had one early-20's girl saying I scared the pee out of her! BONUS POINTS!
(Ok so yeah, those pics above aren't in QUITE the right order, and my position is a little different in them...oops)
ANd here's some of the interior party decor in the daylight...
Hope you all had as great a Halloween as we did! Now to go scarf down what precious little candy is leftover! ;-)
4 comments:
Great decorations! But tell me...am I missing something...isn't Halloween on Oct 31??
I'm with Brenda - how many nights do you have to provide candy to kids? Did you have trick-or-treaters tonight as well?
Nah, it seems many areas of the US don't do trick or treating ON Halloween, but instead on whatever night/time the communities think is convenient/safe. If Halloween falls on a weeknight, trick or treating often gets bumped to a weekend so it's easier on the parents' and kids' schedules I guess. Plus that might tie in to the fact that nighttime is now unsafe for children, and so trick or treating is moved to daylight hours. Our neighborhood, for example, had trick or treating from 1:00 to 3:00pm on Sunday the 28th. Now considering it was almost ALL young kids under, say, 8 coming around, and almost all were escorted by their parents due to their young age, I can sort of see the point. But it takes away the fun of doing it at nighttime...after dark...which made it more exciting and scary as kids!
And no, they didn't get to also go trick or treating tonite. It was just Sunday. (Man, I couldn't afford the candy if they did it TWICE!)
What fantastic decorations you had.. You guys have to be the cool house on the block. Here we did it at 7pm when it got dark and mom and dad took them all around.. We love lighted jack o lanterns..
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