Halloween Fun

Even though we got back that morning, Steve and I were determined to have a little Halloween fun, so we had a sceance after all. I picked up a Ouija board at Toys-R-Us and Carla and Andrew joined us in trying to get in touch the spirit world.
Earlier in the evening, we passed out so much candy to the local kids we had to run out and get another bag at the store. This neighborhood still has plenty of groups of kids with parents trailing behind, and it warmed our hearts. We put candles in the windows, had spooky music on the stereo and Steve threw together a scary robe outfit to pass out candy. I provided the "good cop" contrast so that the adults didn't think we were putting poison in the candy, and the real little ones didn't run from the porch. Ernest perched on his foot stool in the doorway posing with a skull, like a good black cat, providing ambiance that was not lost on the smallest children, as he was in their eye line. "Kitty!" they all said. The most popular costumes were princesses for girls and Spiderman for boys with ninjas a close second. The photo winners for our fridge art project were the devil girl with a matching outfit for her chihuahua and the little pair of mummies.

Andrew brought over a beautiful Cartman from South Park jack o'lantern, complete with chin wrinkles.

Our sceance results as follows. This house is not haunted. Ian's apartment is, but we couldn't get a straight answer about by a good or bad spirit. And Steve cheats at the Ouija board, throwing it all off. The spirit world did not take kindly to his quips, and abruptly said "good bye." After that, he had to resort to pushing the guide around while Carla and I had our eyes closed.