Wow, we did a lot of Halloween activities this past week! Some were more fun than others.
On Thursday the 27th, our YMCA had their annual Fall Festival. It was ok. A few activities in the gymnasium – cake walk, bean bag toss, face painting, indoor inflatable jumper. It was scheduled for 2 hours – I think we stayed about 45 minutes and Sionna was asleep on my shoulder most of that time.
On Saturday the 29th, our neighbor had a party and invited us over. John stayed home with Sionna (asleep again) and I took Connor across. This neighbor’s parties are always huge – lots of stuff going on. There was face painting, a costume contest for the kids, lots of food, a hay ride (Connor did that twice). We stayed for about 2 hours.
On Sunday the 30th, we went down to Galveston to Moody Gardens. The place became “Ghostly Gardens” from 2-4. Again, the kids didn’t want to wear costumes. We are members so we didn’t have to pay admission. We ate lunch then enjoyed our usual walking through the Rainforest pyramid, the Discovery pyramid (C & S love the musical
instrument exhibit), and the Aquarium pyramid. Didn’t see many decorations, and most of the areas handing out treats ran out before we got there, but that was ok – we LOVE walking through the pyramids anyway.
All this activity was great because on Halloween night, we had a major storm. Heavy rain, lots of wind — I was not about to walk around Nana’s neighborhood trick-or-treating in that weather. So Connor was disappointed, but he got over it.
