Trunk or Treat

After Rohan's birthday party last night we headed off to Weegeena for our ward "trunk or treat" Halloween Party. Although it drizzled for most of the night, it was a fabulous evening. Trunk or treat is becoming more and more popular with the dangers of children going around knocking on people's doors, especially strangers. Now the idea is to meet in a safe area, like a carpark and decorate the boot of your car. The children go around each boot and collect their treats and have a look at the decorations and do stuff like fish out treats from a bowl full of jelly etc.

Collette and Jessica dressed me up as Frankenstein's bride. I wore a $5 wedding dress from the op shop and Jessica did my eyes up really black so I looked a bit like a corpse. We bought a witch hat from the party and confectionery shop in Charles St for Sarra and she had a broom. Jessica put a few warts on her face. Hallie went as Spiderman (gee what a surprise) and Jayme drew a spider on her face and a web across her eye. We figured that a few superheroes were needed to get rid of all the witches and vampires. Simon, my darling sisters decided did not need to dress up as Frankenstein - he was scary enough as he was!!

So last night the ward met at the Websters and put their cars in one big circle. We got there too late after Rohan's party to participate in that part but all the kids had bags full of heaps of lollies and I heard there was a doughnut eating competition so it sounded like it was great fun. Of course I was not there to take photos of the boots but there is always next Halloween.

Some examples of the car boots (thanks to Toni's camera)

Louise with Will, Mel, me and Toni

As we pulled up they were just starting a hay ride. Kim had his tractor pulling a big flat top trailer. On top were bales of hay for everyone to sit on. The kids were all so hyper, clutching their bags of lollies and having a great time.

Levi was dressed up as Dracula and he got on his motorbike and did stunts as we were bumping along through the paddocks. it was a hit! He would get up on two wheels with his cape flying along behind and them ride off really fast and do some jumps. (I did not take my camera on the hayride - too dark and trying to supervise a heap of hyper kids was hard enough)

With darkness creeping up on us, he looked quite freaky, almost in a scene from Ghostrider. (not that I got it out specifically to watch but I saw it on the plane over to Thailand)

This is me on the hay ride - the blackness of it almost makes me look like a ghost

On the hayride (care of Toni's camera)

Our 2 superheroes

Scary Sarra (care of Toni's camera)

me and Sister Doig (I think the braces really add to the effect)

When we got back from the hay ride, they opened up the haunted house. It was such a pity that I could not take photos of it because it was awesome. It was pitch black and my non-existent camera skills would just not pick up anything.

Anyway what the Websters along with the help of the Young Men had done, was deck out their huge shed all with boxes covered in black. They made tunnels and paths that we had to crawl through and follow. It was pitch black except for some weird lights and the young men were dressed up with masks and they would jump out at us. It was really effective. Groups of four would go in at a time and Mark would make sure the young men were told if young ones were coming through as opposed to older ones who could tough out the scary stuff.

I took Charna, Hallie and Sarra through. Charna and Hallie ran on ahead but Sarra was absolutely petrified. She was behind me and when we had to crawl she trod on my dress so I could not move forward. I could not stop laughing because I could not budge and Sarra was almost on top of me because she was so scared. When we came out, she said that she was never doing that again. Hallie of course went through again with Simon.

It was such a great night and the kids had a ball. I hope we make it a tradition and continue on every Halloween. For only $9 at the party shop in they had huge spider webs with glow in the dark spiders and insects. Next time I might decorate our boot with that and make the kids put their hands through the web to get to their treats.

Levi and Louise

our little martian

Lil with the big bad wolf

Sam Ziesel

For more great pics of the night click on Toni's blog before I steal all her cool photos away.