It is usually a perfect fall day, with the air crisp and the leaves changing. Perfect sweater and hot cider weather!
but instead...a snowstorm in October. It literally crippled our town. In-town trick-or-treating was cancelled, another fun Halloween party (with an outdoor haunted house!) was cancelled, and ultimately the mayor cancelled Halloween.
Surely something like the mayor canceling Halloween only happens in books and movies, but NO, it happened here.
Halloween was rescheduled for Friday, November 4. How do you move Halloween?!?!?
the girls were super sad since it would be our last Halloween here and our street is so cute and fun with the party and parade and all...but since the house who usually hosts had a tree hanging on an electrical wire, ready to fall on their house, they were out for hosting!
So the snow came, the trees and power lines fell, and it looked as though a tornado had ripped through our cute little town. It was like nothing i have ever seen in my life. The town was deserted and we lost power for 7 days. We were fortunate enough to stay in a hotel for the week, but had friends who hunkered down in their homes for the week. We hooked up a generator for our sump pumps and each day on our trek back to gas the generators, the thermostat read 43 degrees! We couldn't possibly stay here....schools were cancelled-"snow days"-for 5 days! We have already used up our snow days! the talk of the town was when we were going to get our power back...if i never bail out another sump pump in my life, i will be a happy gal!
thankfully, our church did a "trunk or treat" so the girls were able to get dressed up two weeks before halloween! it was a great party! but even the school parties and parades were cancelled...
on the actual holiday, we met some friends at the mall to have lunch at cheesecake factory and trick-or-treating at all the stores. better than sitting in a hotel room!
here are my girls in their costumes:
it will be a halloween we'll never forget!
