We spent today splashing in the pool, visiting, sipping delicious homemade drinks, walking down at the lake, and BBQ-ing.... and a bit of trick-or-treating.
David's folks bought him this shirt in Sedona (dyed using the red rocks) for his 40th birthday. The kids thought it was pretty funny that it read 'Old As The Rocks'! HA.
A view of the lake.
Sarah was grapes for Halloween. Originally to be purple grapes, but no purple balloons to be found. SO - red grapes it was. Should have worn a red shirt - but she got tons of compliments and so she was pleased. Thank you Auntie Esther for the great last minute ideas!!
Joshua was a Canadian eh?! :) Didn't Daddy do an outstanding job with the face painting!!
Megan went as Miss Bedhead and was excited to increase her candy stash!!
Our Halloween experience in Havasu....
Kids got all ready and were excited to hit the pavement, start ringing doorbells and shouting out 'trick-or-treat' !! So we began to wander up the street realizing that there was not a single person outside. Seemed strange... it was close to 7pm, certainly in Halloween's past kids were out by this time. We began to question if we had the right day, was it in fact the 31st? Yes it was, but we were feeling a little odd about walking up to that first house. Chickening out, we came back and got the van (we knew we couldn't squish Sarah into the truck!!) and drove around a bit. No kids. Not one. Not a SINGLE child. The streets were empty. Next thought was perhaps they didn't "do" Halloween here. Could be. So we pulled into a gas station and asked. We were informed there was an event downtown, so off we went. WOW. It was packed with people (busier than Disneyland!!) and the kids were to stand in lines at the different downtown businesses and collect the candy. Yes, THE candy. The SINGLE piece of candy. Coming from Fort Mac where they got literally HANDFULS at each house, standing in line for up to 5 minutes, for a mini tootsie roll was disappointing to say the least. We pressed on and walked down the over-crowded streets for about an hour before calling it a night. We laughed and told the kids it would be a halloween they'd remember :) They still got more candy that they could eat in a week so it was all good (at least to me it was, they might have a different opinion!) :)
We came back to the house where Grandma & Grandpa had stayed to hand out candy, but they only had one ring of the doorbell the whole night.
We made popcorn and chatted around the table as the kids checked out their loot and found treats that they hadn't seen in Canada before so that was neat. It was nice to be outside without jackets this year, in shorts in fact and feeling warm. It wasn't like that last year, so this was an extra treat! :)
AWESOME coustoms kids - you did a good job and maybe showed those Americans was Halloween was all about. Well at least you had some fun and some candy along the way. Great job.
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