Halloween and La State Fair

Our Halloween plans were to go to the downtown trick or treat on Friday the 30th and then to go to the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport on Saturday. No going door to door as last year the kids liked the downtown stuff better. However we have had massive amounts of rain this month and Friday we got even more which ended up knocking the power out for most of the town. I even had to pick Alex up from school at 11am bc the school had been without power since 830am and couldn't serve lunch. So the downtown trick or treat was cancelled. So wasn't sure what to do until my dad mentioned that the Shreveport outdoor shopping mall was having a trick or treat as well. This mall is about as big as our downtown is so thought that would work out nice. We went to the fair Saturday and had a great time. Aidan and Alex rode a ton of rides and played lots of games. Even had their first funnel cake. We left Andrew with my dad for the afternoon since Andrew would not get much out of the fair and it would be easier on us.

After the fair we ate dinner with Dad at a catfish/BBQ place and then headed to the outdoor mall. We were not prepared for the amount of people there-took is 25 mins to get from the onramp to the mall-and it is only 2 miles from the interstate. But we made it, got their costumes on and hoped it was ok. It wasn't. It was packed, none of the stores were passing out candy, they had a few tables set up in the center of the mall and the kids each got about 5 pieces of candy. We left. We felt bad they didn't get to do any trick or treating so we headed to near Dad's work where there are a few houses I know of. Yea, not a good idea either as they were evacuating people b/c of the rising waters-optional evacuation but that was a no go. I felt sad they missed out, so did Edward. So Edward went to walmart, bought some candy, and while they were sleeping we filled their pumpkins and this morning told them that the Great Pumpkin came and filled their pumpkins. We got the Great Pumpkin idea from Charlie Brown :) and Alex really likes Charlie Brown. So they woke up to filled pumpkins and all is right with the world again.

So, a massive amount of pictures to share of Halloween and the fair.

Halloween 2009:











Louisiana State Fair: