HALLOWEEN

It was our first Halloween in Paris, and I think this was a great one. I would say better than Sapulpa because there, they really only give you what you don't want. Like Smarties, Now n' later's, all that non-chocolate candy, when really chocolate is all you want. It didn't compare to Vermont however because there the people just put a bowl of FULL-SIZED candy bars on their porch. It was pretty sweet though. The whole family had been watching "The Nightmare Before Christmas", a lot before this holilday to be prepared. Primarily Liam considering he has been obsessed with that movie. There was much preperation mostly by Liam. He drew pictures, and sang Halloween songs which pretty much got everyone in to the spirit. Even Dylan was jumping up and down on the way out the door. This year Liam was a Pumpkin King, with skeleton gloves. Which consisted of a pumpkin mask, a pretty sweet tuxedo shirt, crazy skeleton gloves, and rain boots. Dylan was a skeleton with his skeleton shirt, gloves. He even let mom draw circles around his eyes to make him more skeletonish. He couldn't stop looking in the mirror at himself, saying "costume". Chloe was Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas. She wore a handmade dress (made by dad), and very scary make-up (put on by mom). I went for a classic along with Dylan and was a skeleton. I had a sweet Skeleton mask, skeleton gloves, and wore all black. We decided to go to Becca's (my moms really good friend, who we went with to the Pompidou earlier in the day) since Paris isn't really known for its tricker-treaters. We did see some however, a vampire, and a pack of princesses to name a couple. We definitely got stares though. And I'm pretty sure we scared a few people. Particularly when they walked by me I noticed that they quickened their pace. When we got there Becca was obviously prepared for the Oldham's. There was a bowl full of candy, dorito's, and sparking apple juice. In a matter of ten minutes Liam had accumulated a mountain of wrappers, and stated that he needed to lie down. Luckily no one got sick, but we went home full that night, and decided that this had been a pretty good Halloween.