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Nov. 10th, 2011 12:53 pmThat's right! I promised a recounting of Halloween!
In short: We scared little kids. It was awesome.
At length: We've been planning for Halloween all year. We decided that we all needed long black robes so that we could be grim reaper-type ghouls. We commissioned my mom to make them for us (we bought all of the supplies, of course).
The Halloween stage was set on the first day of October.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
baylorsr turned the frontyard into a cemetary, complete with styrofoam headstones and glowing skeletons (one a zombie, the other a pirate). This year we added a bat that hangs off of the big tree; it lights up, swings back and forth, and makes spooky bat noises. There is also a witch that hangs on the door. She's motion-activated and cackles whenever anyone opens or closes the door. Of all of the decorations she's the one who has scared the most children (including the Baylor Nephew in years past). [Our resident ghost used to be fascinated with the witch, triggering it to go off at strange and random times.]
On the night itself we put on our robes and painted our faces bone white with black around our eyes and mouths. Thendodger_sister and I stood in the big picture window, all of the lights off behind us, with only flashlights to illuminate our faces. baylorsr silently and expressionlessly passed out the candy. In the background we were playing one of those spooky noise tracts on a loop.
A number of kids stood on the sidewalk, staring at the house, trying to gather up the nerve to come up to the door. One little kid dressed as Michael Myers got his candy and then suddenly noticed us standing in the window. He walked backwards all the way to the street, staring at us the whole way. One girl came up with a whole gaggle of kids and then squealed and jumped upon seeing us. We could hear her pointing us out to the other kids as she walked away. I spooked out another kid by staring at him the entire time. Another girl couldn't tell if we were real people or holograms so I pointed at her. She shrieked a little, it was awesome.
Lots of parents took pictures of the house and talked about us while their kids were getting candy. Our zombie costumes were the talk of the neighborhood last year and I bet this year won't be any different.
The two or so hours of trick-or-treating seemed to fly by. Our only disappointment was the lower than expected number of kids. I guess that's what happens when Halloween is on a Monday.
dodger_sister has some great photos of the decorations in the yard over here. I'll be sure to put up a shot of us in full costume when I get my hands on them.
Yay! Scaring little kids is the greatest!
In short: We scared little kids. It was awesome.
At length: We've been planning for Halloween all year. We decided that we all needed long black robes so that we could be grim reaper-type ghouls. We commissioned my mom to make them for us (we bought all of the supplies, of course).
The Halloween stage was set on the first day of October.
baylorsr turned the frontyard into a cemetary, complete with styrofoam headstones and glowing skeletons (one a zombie, the other a pirate). This year we added a bat that hangs off of the big tree; it lights up, swings back and forth, and makes spooky bat noises. There is also a witch that hangs on the door. She's motion-activated and cackles whenever anyone opens or closes the door. Of all of the decorations she's the one who has scared the most children (including the Baylor Nephew in years past). [Our resident ghost used to be fascinated with the witch, triggering it to go off at strange and random times.]On the night itself we put on our robes and painted our faces bone white with black around our eyes and mouths. Then
dodger_sister and I stood in the big picture window, all of the lights off behind us, with only flashlights to illuminate our faces. baylorsr silently and expressionlessly passed out the candy. In the background we were playing one of those spooky noise tracts on a loop.A number of kids stood on the sidewalk, staring at the house, trying to gather up the nerve to come up to the door. One little kid dressed as Michael Myers got his candy and then suddenly noticed us standing in the window. He walked backwards all the way to the street, staring at us the whole way. One girl came up with a whole gaggle of kids and then squealed and jumped upon seeing us. We could hear her pointing us out to the other kids as she walked away. I spooked out another kid by staring at him the entire time. Another girl couldn't tell if we were real people or holograms so I pointed at her. She shrieked a little, it was awesome.
Lots of parents took pictures of the house and talked about us while their kids were getting candy. Our zombie costumes were the talk of the neighborhood last year and I bet this year won't be any different.
The two or so hours of trick-or-treating seemed to fly by. Our only disappointment was the lower than expected number of kids. I guess that's what happens when Halloween is on a Monday.
dodger_sister has some great photos of the decorations in the yard over here. I'll be sure to put up a shot of us in full costume when I get my hands on them.Yay! Scaring little kids is the greatest!
