Tag: Trick Or Treat

Big Day

As a black cat, Halloween is sort of Lily’s big day. She was very fascinated by the door being open but as usual, once the strangers started showing up she was nowhere to be found. She tried her best though. Good job, cat.

Robin also tried to get into the spirit of the day. Mostly showing support for her daughter, like a good parent. She also was nowhere to be found once people started coming by. Oh well. Both of our cats are just wimps, I guess.

The good news from the Trick or Treat experience is that we gave out a shit load of candy. The bad news is that we did not give it all out. I have a few leftover bags. In the pre-gastric bypass surgery world I would have started eating the leftovers by now. Today? Post-surgery? I can’t eat sugar anymore so… I don’t know what’s going to happen to the leftovers. We’ll see the kids in a couple of weeks. Maybe they’ll take it.

Hope your Halloween was a good one. Happy Halloween, everyone.

Trick or Treat in Progress

Has anyone ever live-blogged their house’s trick or treat experience?

It started at 5:00pm. It’s 6:11 now. We had our first trick or treaters at about 5:45. That seemed really late, but it was after the sun went down so maybe folks were just waiting for darkness. I had one group of six slightly older kids. One was a girl in a Bruins uniform. She is currently tied for my favorite costume.

A few minutes after that first group left, the avalanche started. We got hit by maybe 20-30 kids all at once. I bought six bags of candy over the weekend. That run cleaned out three of the six bags. Boom, gone. Intense trick or treating. That rush included my other favorite costume. A little, little boy dressed as The Flash, complete with great big muscle-shaped padding. It was pretty awesome.

It’s 6:15 now. 45 minutes left on the clock and still about three bags worth of candy waiting to be distributed. Will there be more kids? Will there be another landslide rush?

We’ll see.

Happy Halloween!

Prepped for Trick or Treat

Trick or Treating in my town starts at 5:00pm tonight.

I booked some time off so that I can be out of work in time to give out candy tonight. I am prepped and ready to go, even though it doesn’t start for another 7.25 hours or so. Sorry.

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Sugar Free Halloween!

I’ve been plowing through season nine of the original Doctor Who today. Just… so much Who at one time. I am going to be hearing cheesy synth music in my dreams for years now. I had to take a break.

Given that we are Disney Bound shortly, I checked on our favorite Disney Youtube channel, TheTimTracker to see if there are any videos I have missed during my epic Who View. There is a recent video covering Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. We have tickets for that on our Magic Kingdom day! Cool, I can get the low down.

I knew they had trick or treating at these events but given my gastric bypass’ inability to handle sugar I figured I was going to have to miss out. Then the video showed a guy who had a tree nut allergy and they gave him a different colored trick or treat bag so that the cast members new to only give him specific allergy friendly food.

I wonder…. thought I…

Off to The Google I go. I searched for Disney not so scary sugar free and this was the first hit:

Do they have Sugar Free treats at the MNSSHP? Thank you

Well honk my hooter, boys and girls, it looks like your friend and humble narrator may get to play along after all! Is it possible I am even more excited about our upcoming Disney trip now? Is it possible I am not 52 years old but I am actually still six years old? Is that possible? I think so!

Trick or Treat

I’m on candy distribution duty for tonight’s Halloween. Trick or Treating began at 5:00pm and it runs until 7:00pm. The first group rang the doorbell at 5:28. The second at 5:30… and the second group turned into a run, the likes of which I’ve never seen. Maybe close to 20 kids in all. They were like G.I.’s storming the beaches at Normandy. They just kept coming two or three at a time. It was an onslaught. We started with six bags of candy and half of it is gone… and it’s not even 5:45 yet!

Happy Halloween!