Halloween

To our kids delight, Halloween is celebrated in Canada much like the United States!  We were sad to miss our annual tradition of trick or treating and dinner with our friends in Ames, but were lucky to get great weather here for trick or treating last night!  It was cold, but no rain!  Whew!

Avie was Link from the Legend of Zelda and Archer was, of course, a slice of pizza!



Archer's school had a Halloween parade that the parents were invited to attend.     All the kids walked around the gym 1 class at a time and then all the kids stood up and sang 2 songs.  The 5th graders did a dance to "Thriller" followed by all the students doing the "Macarana" dance with the teachers leading in the front!  It was fun to go into the school and see all the kids in costumes!



We went over to one of Archer's friends house and trick or treated with them!  It was a bit different than Ames as there was no set time for trick or treating and we had to walk up and down lots of hills!  But the kids had a blast and were definitely tired with loads of candy by the time we returned after 1 hour and 20 minutes and 1.3 miles of walking according to my watch.

  Trick or treating!  The kids did get one full size Candy bar this year!




A few ghost like images I took due to the kids not wanting to slow down for a picture in the low light!

Didn't take the kids long to sort all this candy!  They candy was similar to the United States but slightly different or different names.   Archer did try to trade 5 candy for 1 sour skittles with his friends, but no one wanted to made the trade.  I guess the sour skittles have a high value this year!  Archer only got one and his friend received 3!

The evolution of candy by Archer:

After walking to the kids schools 4 times yesterday:  (1) drop Archer off (1 mile), (2) help with a special Halloween lunch provided by the PAC at Archer's school (1 mile), (3) attend a Halloween parade/assembly at Archer's school following by picking Avie up (2 miles), (4) then picking Archer up after Bricks for Kids (1 mile) AND a 3 mile run with Jarad to train for an upcoming 10K that when are running with my brother in a few weeks, my total steps and miles were over 11 miles, so I was pretty tired by the time we got home last night!