11.02.06 - 4:18 pm

halloween this year was unlike any of the previous halloweens.

a jolly green giant.
a lunch lady.
a spider.
a very unattractive female dental hygeinist
a half human half cat hybrid
a brain
and a bearded warmly dressed dad.

and running. no, sprinting. there was no time for leisurely walking house to house. justin made sure that everyone in our group raced house to house in the most efficient zig zag possible in order to accumulate the maximum amount of candy available. fate was on our side this year; due to the cold, not many people were out this year. this meant that all those houses expecting a flurry of children, had a enormous surplus of candy and no one to give it to.

except for us.

several houses literally gave us handfuls of candy. demanding we take all they had. and we did.

ashton finally was able to put on his spider costume, after weeks of patiently waiting. he loved it. adored it. for the first hour he kept up with justin really well, running so excitedly. after every house he would say, "i want to go to another house!" as if hed never trick or treated before (this was his third time). he was rendered completely incapacitated by halloween decorations. wanting to touch pumpkins, skeletons, skulls, ghosts and monsters. so distracted was he, that he would have to be reminded that he was there to get candy. he did so well. he made everyone smile. a dog tried to eat off his spider arms. he really wanted to play with his pez dispenser.

after an hour or so, he got tired. so i picked him up and ran with him to each of the houses. he laughed the entire evening. except when they started to get ahead of him, he worried he was being left behind. and became less interested in getting more candy and instead wanted to play with the candy he already had. his pumpkin was overflowing thanks to the assistance of rachel.

at the close of the evening, with all the houses in the utopia of charbonneau conquered, we returned to the motherland of the stradley house.

371 pieces of candy. the crudely drawn paper proudly displayed on our mantle. justin only 30 pieces away from his most ever conquest.

sarah didnt participate this year. as expected. she said she had to work, which she did. but she didnt have to. some forethought would have allowed her to request the day off, so that she could be with her son on a day especially designed for kids. i really got the impression her intentions were good, but her heart really wasnt dedicated to it. she talked to ashton near the end of our treating, and you could tell he was disappointed. so was i. last year she only went with him and i for a little bit before she left for a party. i doubt she went home and sulked this year.

whatev.

so was the adventure of our halloween. climaxed of course with the last four episodes of lost, including the two hour season finale, most of which joined by michael j. spear.

the highschool science teacher blew himself up with dynamite. the black rock is actually an old sailing slave ship. the hatch has the same numbers hurley won the lottery with. and michael, jin, sawyer were attacked by the others. walter is now their captive.

more to come.