Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Trunk or Treat

Although Shannon and I don't get too excited about Halloween, we do realize that it can be a lot of fun for the kids to get dressed up to receive free candy. So, since the kids are pretty bored anyway, we thought we'd give them the opportunity to do something fun. The girls got decked out one day before Halloween because we saw that a nearby business was advertising that they were going to be giving out free candy to anyone in costume that day. Kilah dressed as Braveheart, Summer was a Greek goddess, and Sydney was Pippin from Lord of the Rings. We drove around to see if any other businesses were doing the same, but it turned out that they got dressed up for only one place (however, that place gave them quite a bit of loot.) On Halloween night, the church we've been attending, North Side Baptist, was having a "Trunk or Treat" event. We weren't familiar with this concept so we asked one of the pastors about it. Specifically, we asked, "Are the kids supposed to dress up for this event?" The pastor's answer was, "They can, but we're really trying to get away from the whole trick-or-treat thing." We took that as a "no." So we arrived on Monday night to find dozens of vehicles all decked out with jack-o'lanterns, ghosts, witches, and the like and EVERYONE else dressed up for trick-or-treating. Our girls were nearly the only kids there who didn't dress up - and there were hundreds of kids there. Needless to say, we felt a little awkward, but the people manning the "trunks" were good about it and the girls all got enough candy to keep their sweet tooth satisfied for a while.