Halloween Party Pictures

A Crime!

Looking for clues

Sherlock Holmes and Hugh Heffner

A cheerleader mummy

Some More Mummies

A Samurai, Little Red Riding Hood and a Fairy

A Small Skeleton

Halloween

This year we hosted our second annual Halloween Party. Frank missed most of it because he had to go to bed. He didn't know what to think of Andy's Ben Franklin costume. He was scared of him at first! But then he got used to everyone in their strange get-ups. After Frank went to bed, the grownups had a lot of fun. We wrapped each other up as mummies and ate brains. Sherlock Holmes searched for clues and Miss America 1982 won the costume contest. I got to try my hand at mixing cocktails for real. I think I did a good job - people drank them and asked for more! And now I know how to make Black Cats and Vampires. There was a good mix of people, too. It's amazing how small the world is! Especially the nerd, historical interpretation and theatre worlds and how much they overlap. For example, Gwen (a seamstress who specializes in costumes) and Kelsey (who works at the Fort) had a long conversation about corset stays and what the best material for them is. This same Kelsey also works at the Library that Emeric studies at. wow. After the party died down, Emeric and Mike stayed awhile longer and talked about a lot of stuff. I think that was the best part of the party, not that all the rest of it wasn't totally fun! But one of my very favorite things to do is talk with my friends late at night about whatever and having a little sidekick that goes to bed far too early often prevents me from doing that.

It was a good party and I'm already looking forward to next year's.

On Halloween, we carved pumpkins and went trick-or-treating. Frank figured it out very quickly! He didn't want to be carried at all. He tried to walk from house to house all by himself, but he was too excited and kept falling on his face. When his uncle James went up to the doors, he toddled right after him and held out his bucket for candy. If anyone tried to take his candy away or even just hold it for him, he got Very Upset. He held onto it all night long, right up until he went to bed. Then Andy and I ate all of his candy. That's another thing my little sidekick is good at: getting Halloween Candy for me!