Monster Mashing
This was the best Halloween, in several years. It felt like Halloween was on the decline for the past few, but it was good to see it bouncing back.
The house on the corner of my street used to have an elaborate display. Smoking Electric Chair and all that kind of fun stuff. It was good enough to have people from a local church come by and hassle the guy who lived there. They even brought police one time! (as if there was anything the police would do about it...they ended up being necessary, though. They had to restrain the bitter old woman because she was getting so worked up about this "unholy" house).
Anyway, he stopped decorating a few years back (I wonder if he got tired of dealing with their harassment) and a local church would put on these anti-halloween festivals (kids could come for games and rides, but costumes were prohibited). So it seemed like there were less houses decorating and less kids trick or treating around the neighborhood and it made me sad. I was like, "Damn, the haters are winning."
But this year was much more encouraging. Lots of houses had cool displays and there were plenty of trick or treaters in the streets. It was nice.
By the way, my neighbor is a physics professor so he carved a cool pumpkin pi geek-o-lantern. If you notice, I somehow managed to accidentally frame approximately 3.14159 pumpkins in this photograph! Righteous.
My kids were smooth witch criminals:
Although my friend says Zerrick looks more like Jack White than Michael Jackson.
I am fine with that.
