Halloween

Halloween is amazing here. Everyone goes all out. All houses are decorated like it is Christmas. Lights, cobwebs, skeletons, tombstones and so on. Most people sit on their porch and hand out candy and the fact that it is 75 plus degrees makes it nice to see kids costumes and the millions of people out. We started Halloween on Monday with team bonding. Hawaii pacific university put on a trick or treat festival downtown with  bout 25 booths of games, a band, haunted house and free food. It was a blast. About 10 girls from her team and their families came. All 3 coaches were there and the girls had a blast. It was fun to see them all getting along and hanging out, and it is so obvious it is helping them on the field. The kids all left thanking us greatly for taking them and telling us how much fun they had. I loved it as we had never done anything like it. In Oregon there was that sort of thing for younger kids but this was very appealing to any age! All 3 kids went in the haunted house and J joined them.. C thought it was dumb, T was a little spooked and Logan was devastated.. He hated it.. poor kid!  

So when the day of  Halloween rolled around out bags were already half full from the festival.. We went with our neighbors Jacob and Lauryn and their mom Josie. We headed out around 6:15 and by 7:30 Carson was done. His bag was full and he wanted to go home and hand out candy. Logan and Jacob lasted another 15 mins and they too were done. T and Lauryn could have gone all night.. at about 8:10 we told them time to head home.. They proceeded to Lauryns to "trade" candy.. T finally walked in the door around 8:45 and was exhausted and a little spooked.  Many porches had people hiding and would jump out and scare you. T doesn't like that and it was obvious when she ended up sleeping on our floor that night. Poor kid came in our room at 1am talking about the people dancing in our hallway.. Not quite sure what that is all about, maybe our house is haunted.. but needless to say the grabbed a pillow and blanket and parked it on our floor. Halloween was a success we have 3.5 bags full of candy and I am hoping to throw 3 bags of it out! Not so the kids don't eat it, more so that I don't eat it!! I do not think many choices are gluten free or dairy free and somehow my little mind says "eat it" anyways, which always ends with an upset tummy for days.. I must have more willpower, oh but chocolate is soooo good!!