Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! We had a very scary day!

But let's back up. This Halloween was a lesson in urban living. It was eye-opening because of how different it was. For example, in Portland we always go to Sauvie Island to the pumpkin patch. I should say, one of many pumpkin patches -- vast expanses of pumpkins you can pick yourself. There's none of that out here. Even out in the far reaches of Long Island (The Hamptons) the only thing there are vast expanses of are million dollars homes, and marsh.

Secondly, what would you do with a carved pumpkin if not put it out on your front porch or walkway? We don't have one, we, like everyone in this city, live in buildings. We debated whether we should even carve them at all, since I didn't really want the smell of raw, carved pumpkin filling our living room. We decided, in the end, to go ahead and carve pumpkins the night before Halloween, and put them outside our door just for Halloween day.








With pumpkins carved, Halloween day arrived. This morning, we got the boys dressed up in their costumes:


On the left, Miles, we have an Alien. On the right, Damion, we have General Grevous (from Star Wars).




Let's not forget about our other little boy!


Oliver was extremely embarrassed in his costume, and basically hid away on the couch while he had it on. LOL

The boys had a Halloween parade at school today, so Kristal and I dressed up in our costumes and went to the parade:



Here's the boys at their parade:



See the Alien in there? :-)


General Grevous!

After school, we learned another lesson of Halloween here. Like I mentioned, everybody lives in buildings. There aren't any houses. So there really isn't trick or treating. At least, no neighborhood trick or treating. What happens here is that most of the shops on the main strip through town, Washington St., have candy and the kids trick or treat there. Hoboken has a pretty fun Halloween parade, and there were TONS of people there.

Us getting ready for the Halloween parade:

This doesn't really do it justice, but there were thousands of people out, trick or treating on Washington.


Here's Kris, Damion, and Miles rocking it:


Those bags are getting full!!

Me with the dog:


The costumed dachshund doesn't really add to the level of METAL I was going for:


And last but not least, what would a Halloween parade be without an Elvis impersonator:


Stay tuned, we got Kristal's birthday tomorrow which will most certainly lead to some epic blogging!!