What Halloween fun are you having?

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Last night me and some girls from work went on a "haunted trolley tour" of Richmond. Having grown up and lived in Richmond all my life, I wasn't expecting much. I mean, how many times can you be entertained by the same sites but I really enjoyed it. It was different going to all these places at night. The 2 tour ghouls were dressed up in character and we stopped at several places to have them tell us ghost stories. With slavery and the civil war I guess Richmond holds some ghostly potential. I liked that they also made it a little history lesson too and one of the things I learned was Edgar Allen Poe's mom was buried at St Johns, (which of course we all know is where Patrick Henry made his famous speech) a right usually reserved for Richmond's wealthy blue bloods but promises and money was exchanged and St Johns agreed to allow her to be buried there in an unmarked grave. Many years later after Poe's rise to fame a marker was eventually added but it's said you could always find her by the sweet scent of roses, a perfume she wore in life......creepy LOL!

Anyway, this got me thinking. What are you all doing for Halloween? Anyone going to the pumpkin patch? Or a haunted house?

Next week I'm having a pumpkin carving party. A bunch of friends come and we eat yummy food and watch The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and carve pumpkins. It's always lots of fun. Then on Halloween I cook lots of yummy stuff again and we usually have a few people over and watch movies. We get lots of trick or treaters and I make the best goodie bags for them :)
 
we're going costume shopping today, next week, she'll pick out a pumpkin to carve, the day before Halloween we're making mummy cupcakes and on Halloween we'll go trick or treating
 
We will go to the corn maze this year. Last year's was a mess. A little girl got lost in the maze and went in without her parents and a bird pooped on my head. It was gross after the 1 hour 30 min. ride back home (it was located in NM) so the car smelled like... POOP! LOL!
 
I'll be up at the food bank. We're having a little Halloween carnival for the kids, with lots of games and fun. We'll be asking a can of food per Child for an entry fee, but we never worry if they have it or not. I'll be one of the greeting witches, which is nice. i won't have to buy a costume. LOL!
 
I'm going to a Halloween party with a few friends. Nothing too exciting :p
 
I'll be staying in eating candy, because we don't celebrate Halloween in my country. Though I'd love to go to a costume party.
 
Trick or Treating with my boyfriend! ^^
 
We've just been told we can't use the church we always use for our festival because a couple of the members complained. We've done this for years, at this location. Some kids go there because it's in walking distance. We're all at a loss. Tomorrow I'm going into town with a few other food bank volunteers and we're going to go door to door in the neighbourhood around the church and see if maybe they'll let us put signs in their yards guiding kids to the new location. If we can find a new location.

If only my farm wasn't so very far from town, we could do it in the front pasture. I admit, I;m heartbroken over this. Two people are ruining things for hundreds of kids.
 
That is horrible to hear, Bunny. Rather they like what the holiday is portrayed as or not they should be about kids have safe, clean fun. Maybe that's just the new mom in me talking...but geeze. I hope your group finds a new location!

We won't be doing too much. Just bringing our little man to each grandparents house to "trick or treat". AKA smile wearily while our parents snap no less than 100 pictures of our son in his costume.
 
Bates Nut Farm! You know, that's where Norman Bates went after he retired from the motel business. Now he has a whole farm full of nuts...mwaahahaha...and he makes very good tea, too. Mm, Cherry & Rose tea. Good taste for a serial murderer.
 
Came home feeling triumphant! The town square has an empty corner where one of the buildings fell down (They're all very old) that has been cleared and leveled. We're going to get to have the Halloween Carnival there!

They are also debating what to do with the food bank. We're actually stationed at the church and part of its ministry, but some new, very aggressive members are making it very difficult for us to continue. They don't think helping the poor have food should be one of the church's missions (which seems distinctly un Christian to me). Also they want any non Christian volunteers (which is me and three others, we're all dirty agnostics, atheists or pagans) to be GONE. I'm struggling with how it's even their decision, but they're so confrontational, they're actually forcing policy change because they bully people. I would hate to have to quit, it's my only source of real socialization.

Still, the main thing is having the festival for the kids! Other issues will have to wait. I got my green wig and witch hat. LET'S DO THIS!
 
Halloween isn't very big over here, occasionally we will get kids come to the door. ( Maybe 2 or 3 little ones) Hubby buys candy and chocolates, but most times we eat more than we hand out LOL
 
Best part of Halloween is stealing the yummiest candies from your kid.

I brought him in this world, I'll find rewards where i can.

(Of course, he's wayyyyyy too old for trick or treating at 20.
 
Guilty! Aunt bought two huge bags of candy. My boyfriend and I ate both bags:blush: But it's her fault, cause she had to buy chocolate. So she went and bought two bags of hard candies...oh well something to throw at the neighborhood teenages;)
 
Gingerbread said:
Last night me and some girls from work went on a "haunted trolley tour" of Richmond. Having grown up and lived in Richmond all my life, I wasn't expecting much. I mean, how many times can you be entertained by the same sites but I really enjoyed it. It was different going to all these places at night. The 2 tour ghouls were dressed up in character and we stopped at several places to have them tell us ghost stories. With slavery and the civil war I guess Richmond holds some ghostly potential. I liked that they also made it a little history lesson too and one of the things I learned was Edgar Allen Poe's mom was buried at St Johns, (which of course we all know is where Patrick Henry made his famous speech) a right usually reserved for Richmond's wealthy blue bloods but promises and money was exchanged and St Johns agreed to allow her to be buried there in an unmarked grave. Many years later after Poe's rise to fame a marker was eventually added but it's said you could always find her by the sweet scent of roses, a perfume she wore in life......creepy LOL!

Anyway, this got me thinking. What are you all doing for Halloween? Anyone going to the pumpkin patch? Or a haunted house?

Next week I'm having a pumpkin carving party. A bunch of friends come and we eat yummy food and watch The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and carve pumpkins. It's always lots of fun. Then on Halloween I cook lots of yummy stuff again and we usually have a few people over and watch movies. We get lots of trick or treaters and I make the best goodie bags for them :)
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Well So Far The Only Halloween Fun I have had
Was My Mom and I went To one of Our Haunted House's We Have Here it is called Halls of Horror
My Mom and I were Ok Going Through all Four Haunted House's They Have
But Oh My Gosh After We Finshed Going Through The Last House a Clown With a Chainsaw Started Chasing Us He scared the Hell Out of Us
We almost Fell Down Trying To Get Away From him it was Scary
It was Just our Second Time At Hall's of Horror cause We Mostly Go To our Main Haunted House We Have Here called Nighmare on 19th Street
RH
 
Marble Dragon said:
Guilty! Aunt bought two huge bags of candy. My boyfriend and I ate both bags:blush: But it's her fault, cause she had to buy chocolate. So she went and bought two bags of hard candies...oh well something to throw at the neighborhood teenages;)
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*Uneaten chocolate is sad chocolate that didn't get to live up to its potential. It is imperative to the emotional and spiritual evolution of chocolate to be eaten as quickly as possible, to further its chances of gaining Chocolate Nirvana.

You helped that chocolate escape this mortal coil. You are a good person, nay! A HERO.

Bless you.

* read while humming uplifting oompha music to self
 
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