Halloween

The thrill of trick-or-treating

Our Halloween consisted of three events. The first, pictured above, was trick-or-treating through the halls of the Embassy followed by some games and activities in the cafeteria. We had a witch, a ghost and a pumpkin. I was happy for the very traditional costume requests and was able to create all three outfits out of materials on hand. A highlight for me was all of the random people we seemed to make happy on the streets and on the bus. Several whipped out their phones and requested to take pictures.

The next event was Saturday, a trunk-or-treat activity at the church. There is just something magical about the combo of kids, costumes and candy.

On Sunday, we let the kids hand out candy to the few trick-or-treaters we got in our building. They liked that almost as well.

Luckily their memories are short and their familiarity with candy is limited, so we somehow confiscated all of the good stuff for the freezer, gave away the junk and just left the mini lollypops (their favorite) in their bags. They haven't asked...