Spin Cycle - Halloween review

It's another Halloween special this week at the Spin Cycle with Sprite's Keeper. I don't have any kiddos, and T and I didn't go to any Halloween parties, so all I have to give you is my rundown on the day. This is "Nain's view" of Halloween, if you will...opinions and all (because who would I be if I didn't have an opinion on something?)

We headed up to my parent's house to go trick or treating with my niece, Roo, and to also remember my Grandma, as this was her birthday. It was nice...we had a nice dinner with my family and a birthday cake in her honor. And, of course, we hit the trick or treating. These are some things I observed along the way...

Fewer houses participate in the tradition. Seriously, when I was a kid in my parent's neighborhood it was practically every house that had its lights on and was handing out candy. This year? Not so much. There was one street we hit where out of ten or twelve houses only three were handing out candy.

And the signal to show people you are handing out candy? You know, the leaving your porch light on thing? Do people still know it's proper to do this? Because there were several houses we hit where people had lights on but no one was home or they weren't handing out candy. Weird...and it also made me feel like we were stalkers or something.

AND, the kids...man, is it just me or are kids trick or treating at a later age this year? We passed this one couple who looked like they were in high school or something, holding hands while going down the sidewalk towards a house, and I swear the guy had the startings of a moustache. If those kids came to my house, I'd be handing them out condoms to "be safe" kids and not candy. Yes, crude, but true, especially when you see the things I see in court on a daily basis.

The costumes that seemed to be really popular in my parent's neighborhood were super heroes (spiderman, specifically), Mario, and well, yeah...that was about it. We did see these two preteen girls who were dressed up like the St. Paulie's girl beermaids...and did I mention they looked to be about 13?  Nice.  My niece was cute as ever as Hello Kitty, which I find to be a pretty creative costume.  But a lot of the costumes out there seemed to be lacking in creativity. We did see this adorable little girl who was a thing of bubbles...she had clear balloons all around her, and she was a soap dish. (Too cute, right?) I think she won the prize of most creative costume for the evening in my book.

There was a noticeable decrease in the amount of junior mints available for my niece to pick out for her Aunt Nainy. I was slightly disappointed, I must admit.  Don't people know of their minty goodness?

It was great getting to spend the time with my family, and as always, we had a wonderful time. So check out Sprite's Keeper to see what other tricks or treats people had out there! (Hey, they might not be as cynical as me...)

Happy Friday, everyone!