Halloween Time Line

8:00AM - We rose early to prepare food. Not only are we having people here tonight to help with the Trick or Treaters, we have a potluck going on at church and Susan is preparing something for that.

So we race around all morning and get ready for church.

9:15 to 12:00 Noon - Church

Noonish - We have returned from church after a lovely Italian style potluck meal, so we are not hungry and can begin the set up. I've made a few calls to people who are coming tonight and now I am off to the store.

We spent the rest of the afternoon getting our props set up. Our friend Mark came over and assisted so it went pretty fast.

Our candy inventory is as follows:

468 Full Size Candy Bars

646 Fun size Candy Bars

520 Twizzlers

4:45PM - The first Trick or Treater arrives and we start lighting up the pumpkins. After the first, the throng begins to develop. The weather was perfect although a touch cool. We had over 1,500 pieces of candy starting with over 400 full size candy bars. Then about 500 fun size and ending with Twizzlers.

Here are some pictures.

Our neighbor to the west had a clicker at the door and counted over 1,400 kids. Our neighbor down the street to the east counted 1, 059. I'm saying it was somewhere in the middle.

Hee is a video of Susan as the Witch.

One final comment for Trick or Treaters. When you approach a house, and there aren't any lights on out front, DO NOT ring the door bell, knock on the door, ring the doorbell again, knock again. Get the EFFING hint! We are out of candy!

It is now almost 10:30PM and we are beat. Everything has been cleaned up and we will put everything away over the next few evenings.

Many thanks to our fabulous crew of helpers, Mark, Ron, Kelly, Don, Rob, Olga, Alec and Natalie. It would have been a nightmare without you.

So ends Halloween Twenty Ten!