I was not sure what to expect, and for a minute at 5:00pm, it seemed like the party was going to be a dud, but I think in the end, it turned out alright. The party was a trick or treat event in the high school parking lot of Crockett High School. The actual event started at 6:00pm, but the planners wanted us there early, so we got there about 4:30pm. It only took 5-10 minutes for us to prepare, I mean, we picked out a spot to park in a huge parking lot with 3-4 cars to start. Then we opened our back door of the Telluride and hung as much crap as we could. We had a Nightmare Before Christmas theme, and Wife beat it to death. She ordered a cardboard cutout kit early enough to get it a couple weeks before the event. We then had plastic heads of Jack Skellington and Sally in different sizes and some that lit up and some that just hung there. The Telluride is actually very smooth and had very little to use for hanging things, but with a little tape and some creativity, we got it done.
Other people had different themes, one nice Mustang with grey and purple colors throughout had a simple but effective Pennywise clown with a red balloon that somehow matched the car. Another one had a lot of candles in the back, which I thought was a bit dangerous, and maybe they were going for a seance theme, but all in all, it was a fun night. We won the Players Choice Award, the football players were the judges, since this was a fundraiser event for them. There were maybe 10 football players that showed up, honestly, there should have been more, but people get busy, I guess. Still, by the time it got dark, there were plenty of kids from the neighborhood. There were enough that we even had a cake walk and they must have run that thing about 6-7 times, with different kids.
I got the feeling that if we had to do stuff like this more often, we would need a bigger vehicle. By the time we left the house, we had the back of the SUV filled with boxes of candies, bins of decorations, a small table, chairs, and then us. It was a good thing we didn't end up picking up friends of Mijo, the back was pretty full. We did take his GF, which was nice, they dressed up as Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. I am sure she would have preferred something cuter, but he had planned on doing this with some of his boys, and we had ordered these costumes weeks ago. Being that it was a cool night, and after freezing my butt off at the football game, I did not argue with Wife when she told me we were going to wear those fuzzy pajama type full costume thingies with Nightmare Before Christmas pattern all over.
We ended the night with a Mexican dinner at a restaurant close by and got home by 11:00pm or so, it was a good night that left me wore out. I like that by now we know ost everybody involved with the booster club, so it is easy to have conversations with these people, which just helps make time fly by.
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