Halloween

A couple of weeks ago Kate went with some of her friends from the ward to a pumpkin patch to pick our pumpkin which we then left sitting on our front step for another couple of weeks. The day before Halloween I decided to carve it and put it back on the step. We had been planning to go to the Halloween parade and didn't think there would be any trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood (I was at the parade last year too so I really didn't know if we would have any or not). Turns out that by having a Jack-o lantern you open yourself up to trick-or-treaters. I went into school that day and was going to meet Kate in the City for the parade. When Kate left to meet me at 5:00 there were already at least 30 kids on our small block alone. They rang our bell but Kate couldn't answer because we didn't have any candy for them. I guess she could have given out some of the dental garbage that I've accumulated but that would have just made them angrier. We'll be ready next year.

I knew taking pumpkin carving as my minor would pay off.

Some random half naked guy dancing on the fire escape of some bar before the parade.



The NYC mayoral election was a couple of days after Halloween, so this "guy" was campaigning for Thompson (who lost) saying "my vote's not for sale...but I am". Yikes!!!


I met Kate and our friend Dave in the city for the parade Halloween night. It was a little disappointing this year because it was raining the whole time which really put a damper on things. However, the I think the rain kept a lot of the costumes pretty tame. It was also fun afterwards as we went to get dinner to see all the people dressed up walking around. Dave invited us to a couple of parties but because we are such losers, Kate and I just went home.