Happy Halloween

The little witch and mermaid at Zoo Boo.  This year was a bit different in that we had a map and now that Addy can read, we spent less time looking at animals and more time having Addy find all of the candy stations on the map and we went around gathering candy.

 



 Another new thing - Addy loves playing with pumpkin goo.  She was the first to dig in and start scooping out the seeds.  Ella is still not a fan. 

 

Ella made sure that we all had costumes this year.  We were on the Halloween aisle and she found the mask and insisted that Daddy needed it for his costume.  Then she came up with the idea that I should be a cat.  Fortunately unfortunately we found the cat ears at Target one day.  So here we are in all our Halloween glory. 

 

 The kids had a BLAST trick-r-treating with our neighbors this year.  I didn't think that we'd gone to many houses, but I guess the kids got extras for being cute or something because they ended up with quite a haul!

 

 

Renaissance Festival

We made our first family visit to the Renaissance Festival.  I am not going to lie, I was a bit skeptical because of the long drive and I had never been so I didn't know what to expect, but was kind of expecting a bunch of drunk people in strange costumes.  But it turned out to be really fun.  We went with another family that have kids in both Addy and Ella's classes and we walked around the village.  Definitely something to add to the calendar on an annual basis now!

It was fairy weekend so there were people dressed up in very elaborate fairy costumes.  All of the fairies were by the entrance so we got to meet them all when we first got there.  The fairies that work at the festival all have some kind of thing that they give out, some give glass marble type things, we got a shell, a feather...just random things that the girls loved collecting.  Ella was skeptical at first and then finally warmed up to the fairies about the same time that Addy had made the rounds and we were all ready to move on.  O'well, we still walked away with plenty of treasures!

We didn't do many of the shows, did see the jousting, but it was fun just stumbling across the random musician or magician.  I have no clue what this instrument is called, but Addy got to give it a try.