She was beyond exited to hit the streets at 6:00 sharp for some heavy duty trick-or-treating. The neighborhood we live in is the one I would drive to for previous Halloweens to trick-or-treat because of the crazy amount of trick-or-treaters and decorated houses. It was so nice to just walk out our front door this year and go! Spencer was home as well, so that made it even more special. We made our way to the back of the Virginia-Highlands neighborhood to hit what is called "Halloween Row", which is a street of houses decorated to the nines for the holiday. My pictures don't even do these houses justice and neither do my descriptions. First of all, there were at least 100 trick-or-treaters along with their parents, grandparents, friends, etc. congregated on this street just to SEE the homes! There was scary music blaring, monsters dancing, huge inflatable pumpkins and ghosts, spiders crawling, an inflatable haunted house, skeletons, and other scary goblins all over the place! Parents were dragging behind them big wagons, not for their children to hop on and ride when they got tired, but for the cases of beer and coolers they were packing around! I tell you it was a gigantic party and Spencer and I were so happy to be in the middle of it! We also witnessed about 700 people, most were in costumes too, biking down the street in our neighborhood! That was really a sight!After 2 hours of trick-or-treating Ella Ann was dead tired, but Spencer and I kept asking her if she was sure she wanted to go home because we wanted to stay out! It really was that fun! We got her home and gave her a sucker, unfortunately most of the candy she got she is unable to eat because it is too hard or she's allergic. I swear I don't think she moved an inch after we laid her down in her bed. She was pooped!
And we're off!
Making our way up to a house.
After each house she would inspect her loot to see what she got!
One of the crazy houses.....
with an inflatable haunted house in the front yard!
This house had Frankenstein (Franklinstein to Ella Ann) singing and dancing at the entrance to their house. They also had gigantic skeletons hanging from their trees and bushes.
Some of the creatures you see are people dressed up and every once in a while they would break their silence and scare a bunch of kids! Thankfully Ella Ann wasn't one of them or else we'd be headed home! :)
A big graveyard in front of one of the houses. The husband and wife passing out the candy acted like they belonged in the Haunted Mansion at Disney. They just starred the kids down as they handed them candy. It was great! If you can see the little red table in the background of the house next door, a man was sitting at the table slicing fresh mozzarella and tomatoes to pass out to the adults! How nice!
This was the only "good" picture we were able to get of the bikers. I don't know if you can even tell, but the lady biking is dressed up.
In other news, we recently purchased a Nintendo Wii, which Spencer and I have been enjoying thoroughly when Ella Ann goes to bed. We will play it, too, before she goes down so she can join in on the fun and Ella Ann loves it! She plays golf pretty well, mainly just by swinging the handheld device 20 times and managing to hit the ball once in the right direction! Here are some pictures of her in action.
In this picture she's testing her luck with bowling.
No comments:
Post a Comment