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Halloween

Apologies for the lack of blog last week. I was/am experiencing a few technical issues with the stock standard blogger program I am stuck with at the moment.

Or perhaps it was related to Halloween and all the ghoulish and ghosty happenings around here? At our old house, Halloween was kind of a big deal with all the kids dressing up and trick or treating. I was actually a bit sad that we wouldn't be able to join in those festivities this year. That is until I realised that we now live in the Halloween capital. They have a massive celebration around here that goes all day and by mid afternoon there was not a free carpark to be found in the entire suburb.

We took Ollie for a walk down to check it all out (well we walked, he rode on his bike, complete with trick or treat bucket on the front). There was no chance of us winning any prizes for best costumes but we put on our devil horns (Ollie) and bolts through the head (me - Nick must have been too cool to wear anything!).

There was heaps to see and do - Ollie got to play his first game of putting the balls in the clown's mouth (what is that called really??). He won some dinky tinky toy that probably broke on the way home but he didn't care. He thought it was awesome and wanted another go straight away.

One thing he didn't want to do again was stand near the creepy tall monster. We thought it would make a good photo. It did, but probably not for the right reason. Funny though...



Nick and I continued the festivities later that night with our friends Cos & Kate coming over for dinner (and LOTS of wine). This was us before it got too messy.

And skipping back to the afternoon, here are the boys at the beach on the way home from Halloween. In a perfectly wonderful four day weekend (the standard for Ollie and I) we managed to finish each day at the beach. It is just amazing to be able to dig our toes into the sand and chase hermit crabs as part of our daily life. We are so very very lucky.


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