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awesome hallooowweenn party - about 25 medium sized kids and an additional dozen substantially larger kids roaring about and having fun.

we had:

a gross-out guy, with a jello brain (of course I ahve a brain mold, don't you?) and various red food colored bits of dissection
bobbing for apples
shark bite donuts (tied to the soccer goal, no hands)
halloween twister (spray painted stencils on a shower curtain)
eyeball *spoink* with plastic spoons (pingpong balls)
frogs eggs (something called chan from costa rica, that makes a mucilaginous [to put it politely] drink)
gnome fling

 

and culminating in a spider web which went so fast I couldn't get pictures... imagine a back yard entirely filled with cheapwhiteyarn in all directions, one string for each child. They follow the string, winding it up as they go, and gong up and over and down and through all the obstacles we strung the string through, culminating in a (tiny really) bag of treats including gooey eyeballs and frogs and a small quantity of candy. Plus Glowsticks !!

the bad thing was the rain that managed to hold off all day even though it threatened to fall on the party prep and the party actually fell during the trick or treat moment, and Alice didn't get to. Which was a bummer. So she is going to wear her costume to today's performance of Pirates of Penzance, and will be redeemed.

And we have too much candy left over. According to me, the parent. Because I said so, and I'm the parent.

So.