Happy Halloween 2010--

Chloe, as Jang*o F*ett, and Oliver, as a park ranger (who refuses to sit still).

We had some lovely fall weather in NJ until Halloween. Right around the time all the trick or treaters prepared to go out, the wind picked up and the temperature dropped into the 40s.

People with children trick or treat early in our area. We're talking come home from church and put on the Halloween costumes and head out kind of early. By the time we made it out the door at 3:30 p.m., there were probably 40-50 kids going house to house on our street alone.

We formed our own pack of tiny goblins with our friends who live a few streets over. Others joined in on the fun and we soon had a small pack of children swarming like bees. After filling her bucket, Chloe moved on to Oliver's pail (he stayed in the stroller--it was too cold to let him run free in his park ranger outfit). After 2 hours of trick or treating, we called it a day and went to attend to our own door.

As it turns out, we had relatively few visitors. The young children were out early in the day and we missed giving out candy to them. Our visitors were middle-school children who threw on whatever they could make into a costume. They run in packs of 10-20, so we had two groups of visitors, totallying only 30 kids all night. Of course, we could have had more, once the World Series game came on and the kids were asleep in their beds, I placed the bowl outside our door as to not be disturbed.

We hope you all had a happy halloween!