David was super excited about his costume this year. He started making it in August, took a 2 month break in order to keep the tradition of finishing the night before needing it! Our family has been big fans of the Nickelodeon show Avatar the Last Airbender. David is a 10 tonne air bison named Appa (that for some reason has a platypus tail).
One of the family favourite games is Guillotine, a card game about the French Revolution. Michael went out as a French noble, post-guillotine.
Our jack-o-lantern was from a pumpkin grown in my first vegetable garden this year. I was very pleased with this fruit of our backyard!
Michael had the honours of carving the pumpkin.
Our house was in one of the neighbourhood scavenger hunts for the "bush with a scary face". Not sure who designed the hunt, but I saw several dozen groups of parents and costumed kids stopping by!
Since trick-or-treating was discouraged, I divided up some of the candy I had already purchased amongst the family for snacking during our first family scary movie.
Michael and David participated in a neighbourhood street parade. All the families contributed some candy so that the kids could get a variety of loot at the end without having to go door to door. It was a nice way to still get some of the flavour of Hallowe'en (pun intended).
Speaking of flavour, we still had our traditional hotdog mummies for dinner. We also had our annual porch wine and candy with friends Sandy and Molly virtually through Zoom. Not as good as the real thing, but it was important to still be able to see them!
And then we watched The Sixth Sense! It was so great to watch the kids faces at the end!
So that was our Hallowe'en. A mixture of old traditions and some new. David was a little morose about his lack of a pillowcase full of sugar, but I think he enjoyed the holiday in spite of that loss. I will enjoy not having quite so many candy wrappers floating around the house!
