Halloween Just keeps giving

Merrick started his Halloween season last week with a party at his school and the season just kept coming for almost another week. Friday we sneaked out and watch some deer after work/school and then prepped our guts for a weekend of junk food by starting out with movies and take out pizza. Saturday morning was some domestic chores and getting ready for the big Zoo Boo. Merrick and I did some grocery shopping only to find out that we would not be getting away from mindless begging quite so easily. Festival was filled with children in full costume, I was unaware of this so Merrick was dressed as The Merrick, but they gave him a bag and by the end of my list he had racked up more goodies than I had. He even slung his bag over his shoulder on the way to the truck to carry it out like a Sherpa. Mid afternoon we headed over to the big zoo to trick or treat with all of the animals. Merrick was dressed as Captain America this time and Sophia donned her Ghoul outfit. Her outfit coincidentally looked an awful lot like the swamp thing that was wandering around the penguins pool. After the candy gathering it was off to some friends house for pizza and play time for the kids. Sunday was the kind of day that makes you happy you own a couch, the wind was blowing stank all day and the intermittent rain meant that we spent a good deal of time in doors. In the early afternoon we did head over to the YMCA for some wetness of a warmer variety and hit the water slides and splashed around in the pool until our eyes were red from the chlorine. We did get out a little and tried to shoot the bow and arrows, but it turned out that the kids were too small for the draw length so it is shelved for another year. Monday of course is the big gig and we pounded the neighborhood for candy by the pound. We did meet up with some of Sophia's friends from the neighborhood but then it was back home to count up the loot. Merrick has gotten very good and packing up to about 8 suckers in his mouth at a single time--very efficient.