Halloween

Happy Halloween!!!
It's a fun time for the kids here. Matthew's Halloween started last Thursday with his play center having a parade and a room full of Halloween games. Matthew got dressed up as Thomas the Tank Engine ( I'll have to figure out how to post pictures ) and did his parade thing. Then I left and Margaret manned a game and got to see Matthew do the games.

Then on Friday IBM had a Halloween lunchtime for kids and adults. Again, a parade for the kids and a prize for all.... in all honesty Matthew had more fun playing in the leaves outside before the parade then anything else..... except having lunch with his dad for a change :-)

Saturday morning saw us off to a friends house for a Halloween party for the kids and then in the evening we went round to a friends house and carved pumpkins and had a bbq.

Sunday was almost an anti climax. We decided not to wander round trick or treating as Matthew really has no idea about it and is not really that much into candy anyway. We dressed him up and went to a couple of friends houses (walking distance ) and then waited for the Trick or Treaters to come to us. Our sub-division is very small ( ~20 houses ) and so all the neighborhood kids grouped together ( all 8 odd of them ) and so we got one visit from the group....... and that was it for the evening!

Tomorrow is election day...... and if we are lucky the U.S may know who the new president is by the end of Jan. Last election has set a precedent ( and a president :-) ) with regard to legal action and so don't be at all surprised if the fiasco that happened last time is worse this time round..... the lawyers have to make their millions somehow..... but I'm not bitter.
At least I won't have to watch all the election rubbish on the box anymore ( or at least not nearly as much ). I can't vote..... only citizens can vote..... I pay taxes though. Isn't that taxation without representation? I thought the war of independence was supposed to have sorted that out?