Wow. It's after 8PM here, and I think the sprinkles kept everyone away: We've had a group aof a dozen-odd almost preschoolers and 4 teenage guys.
Booor-RING!
And boy am I glad I dumbed it down
(Heh. AS I WROTE THIS a 10-year old kid showed up!) this year!
Played the spooky music outside, set up a table 12' inside the front door with a dry-ice cauldron, two punkins and our huge, full wicker candy basket. Ran some string to the door handle and a long bit around the room (behind all the stuff on the tble, out of sight) and left the door unlatched but pushed shut.
When they rang the doorbell I sllloooowwwwlllllyyyyy pulled the door open by the string so they could see the table of stuff and candy basket. Then when they stepped inside I leaned out (no jumping or nothin', mind you!)
from the other side (string, remember?) and said "BOO!" in a not-so-loud voice.
Amazingly this scared the living daylights out of every single one of them! (Even more so the teenage guys that were jabberin' about me being behind the door and all... WHICH I WASN'T! So I was effectively BEHIND them when they started coming in the door.... PWND!
And YES, I even did this to the little kindergartners, too! (But only because they were with adults who were right there too.... I'm not trying to give them nightmares you know!! ... Just stronger little hearts!
)
Technically it's "over" at 9PM here, so we're going to have a LOT of leftover candy to
eat, er,
donate to some wonderful cause! (And I was giving it out by the HANDFULS, too!)
I never even got any of the Halloween decoration bins out of storage either, and am I ever GLAD!
So sorry, no video... not even any big deal this year, either.
(To make up for this bust, maybe I should be the Easter Bunny for my old neighborhood's Easter Egg hunt next spring and rent that bunny suit they used (for Frank) in Donnie Darko? )