We were debating on whether to take the boys the the Safety Zone (Parked cars pass out candy from their trunks, keeping kids off streets which is safer, I suppose. Also, the Safety Zone is non-scary.) or to do traditional neighborhood door-to-door trick-or-treating. We decided, for better or worse, on the Safety Zone.
The best part of the Safety Zone were all the emergency vehicles parked, distributing treats. Ryan LOVED this.
He even got to "drive" the firetruck!
Right off the bat, I found it odd that we had to wait in this line for at least 20 minutes to get to the parked cars/candy. I mean, who waits in line to trick-or-treat?
Finally, we got to the cars. Everyone was really friendly. People even decorate their trunks. But the line was moving slowly; it was quite cold; the boys were getting tired. So we bailed on the cars about a third of the way through.
We were home by 7pm and neighborhood trick-or-treating was going on until 7:30pm, so we light up our jack o'lantern, turned on our lights, and even stood outside. NOT ONE person came by. We even saw a couple groups literally pass our house. Do we have an invisible house? Do we stink? Is our candy nasty? Who can resist these cute babies? Next year, I think we will try trick-or-treating in the neighborhood, the old-fashioned way.
At least we had a few minutes to take some cute pictures of our little ones who were
not disappointed, which is really what it's all about anyway.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
From, Becky, Burke, Ryan & Evan
