And now it’s November.
The family spent the weekend in Ohio catching up with friends. I want to thank Jeanne and family for hosting us as we attempted to close out a quite surreal portion of our lives. I hope that most of the candy wrappers were mine and not my childrens’.
The kids went as a bat and Athena. The Bat was pretty easy to recognize, though she did remind me of Dracula in that Bugs Bunny cartoon (“Abraca Pocus!”, “Hocus Cadabra!”, “Newport News!”) Daughter #2 as the Greek Goddess had to be explained to people, especially as she was the one who thought of the costume: toga, plastic helmet, and stuffed owl. They trick-or-treated in a great, historic, neighborhood: close-together houses all near the street made for very convenient movement. We started late, and many of the houses had run out of candy, so the haul was less than in previous years, but the girls are old enough now not to be completely focused on the swag.
Actually, the Wife was the one who took them around, allowing me to get caught up, and not be completely anti-social. [Note to Self: You have to see Rocky Horror Picture show one of these days.]
We passed on to a second party, from which we had to depart early (girls’ exhaustion), but wish we could have stayed longer: the house is in a neighborhood populated with Seventh Day Adventists, and so almost no one trick-or-treats. This family makes up for it by going overboard: Christmas-level decorations on the outside, double digit tiki-torches on the front lawn, and very realistic body parts scattered about the house. [Note to Self: Actual costume next year, buddy.]
On a parallel note, the Girls have fallen in love with the parts of the Assassins cast album that we played in the car on the way home. The Wife, not always successfully, had to keep her hand on the volume button to edit out, “Shit, I shot it.” We blithely talked about the Kennedy assassination and counterfactual novels while bumbling along on OH-605. In addition we spent last night thumbing through Wikipedia learning about Charles J. Guiteau and Leon Czolgosz. We like to keep it light in our house.
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3 November, 2009 at 4:25 pm
toga + helmet + owl = Athena
4 November, 2009 at 1:24 pm
I wish you could have stayed longer–or I could have been around more. Come back and we’ll watch Rocky Horror with all the kids–or if you don’t think yours are ready yet, without!
I’m going to have to listen to Assassins. The name makes me think of the Assassin’s song from Blondel. He keeps spelling it out: “I’m an a double s a double s…i n ” and King John keeps not getting it until he finally explodes in frustration “yes, I’m an asparagus!”