trick or treat

Around here we have "Beggar's Night," which is often on a different day than Halloween. If Halloween is on a weekend, as it is this year, then Beggar's Night, when the kids go trick or treating, is the Thursday before Halloween. Strange, I know, but it has to do with trying to keep kids off the street on the weekends, apparently.

So trick or treating was last night. Rachel couldn't wait.

Here she is with our neighbor, Batman (and his little brother in the background, Robin, of course--and their mom was Batgirl and their dad was the Joker--even Batman was scared of his own dad's costume and wouldn't go near him if he had his mask on!).

She was more excited about seeing everyone else's costume, though, than she was about actually getting candy. She would've been perfectly happy to just sit and watch everyone and talk about what they were wearing. Her favorites were Spiderman, Thomas the Tank Engine, Woody (actually just a cowboy but she thought it looked like Woody from Toy Story), and all of the princesses (especially Belle). She and Daddy started off the night together and went around our cul de sac. When they came back he asked if I wanted to switch places, so then I took her and we walked around the neighborhood for awhile, going to some other houses. We made it further than we made it last year, but still not all that far. She said she wanted to go home and "west" because her "wings were tired!!!!"

When we got back to our house she sat out with us and ate some m&ms, but didn't want to stay out very long because the house across the street from us was playing "loud, scary music," and she didn't like it. It was a CD of haunted house type music, and it was fairly loud, but it wasn't bad. She didn't like it one bit, though, so she and I only stayed out a little while and then Daddy finished up passing out our candy.

She said she had a great time (except for the scary music).