The day was Saturday. Crazy stuff was happening. Excitement was in the air. It was a full moon – a blue moon in fact (the second full moon in a month). We waited for Mom to come home from work to start preparing for our evening. COVID made things interesting for us too.
We got into our costumes. Mine, I made myself. Yeet. I got a white t-shirt and white pants and wrote “YEET” all over them. It’s an expression, mom. Okay. Moving on. My sister chose to be a character from a movie she spent a lot of money on the costume and accessories. Mom spent a half hour doing her face make up and her hair. It was probably longer. About 5 pm, we left the house to meet up with friends (in our COVID bubble) for dinner and then to go out to trick or treat.
We waited until it got dark and then left their place to trick or treat in their neighbourhood. There were a lot of houses to go to. We were all really happy. When we got back, the real fun began. There was candy dropped everywhere in house. Once we calmed down a little and were out of our coats and gloves, we got flashlights and the adults turned off the lights. ALL the lights! The candy hunt began.
We had to use our flashlights to find all the candy in the dark and pick it up. Whatever we found we kept. It was awesome. We were screaming with excitement and busy scurrying through the house in the dark finding the goods. Once all the candy was found, the light went on and my dad was looking for candy left over. It was funny because there was none left to be found. We were crazy.
There were a few more games, like eat donuts off a string without using your hands and stick your hand in a bowl (or two) to figure out what was inside. Yeah, I didn’t do that one. Too squishy and I don’t like slime. My sister did one bowl. It was jello and fake worms. We ran out into the back yard with our flashlights. We raced. We played a murder mystery game. We had sparklers. When we came back in, we did a craft and then we just played all over the house. Some of us ate some of our candy. Mom made sure she put the candy we got from trick or treating in separate bags. So we were only snacking on the candy that we picked up from in the house supplied by our parents so it was safe to eat.
By 10 pm my sister was tired and ready to go home. I wasn’t. I was having so much fun. It was good to be with friends. In comparison to past Halloweens, this one was the best. My sister thinks it was the best too. No thanks to COVID but to my friends parents’ ingenuity (clever and inventive). We hope they do it again next year.
By M. & J. Mom was too slow to type so J. did. 😉 L. did the edit.