Thursday, November 1, 2012

Halloween 2012

Halloween was strange this year.  Since we had had no school on the days leading up to the 31st due to the hurricane, there was no build up or anticipation.  I woke Henry up on Halloween morning and I had to remind him of the day.  His school was planning a parade in the afternoon and class parties.  We received a call the day before to let the parents know that school was on as well as the parties but the parade was conditional based on the weather.  I sent his costume to school with Henry and planned to go in at 1:45 for the party.  The weather was dreary all day with occasioal sprinkles.  Luckily the parade went off as scheduled.  It was very chilly and windy, but we got to see all the costumes.



 Henry was a Mummy.












Several local townships and the entire state of NJ had rescheculed Trick-or-treating for later in the week.  Our town had few trees and wires down and no lingering power outages. So Halloween was on! Henry and John headed out for Trick-or-treating around 6:30.  We got no one at our house.  Henry came home with quite a haul.  John said he was often offered extra candy because the turn out was light.  Grace went out a Katniss from the Hunger Games with her friends from school.  Frances stayed home with me.