Trick or Treat!

Despite the soggy weather (in which I trotted out my new pink floral rainboots), we bravely went trick or treating with Cinderella and Superman on Wednesday. This was a first-time experience for Keith so it was nice to see some of the houses in my sister's neighbourhood going all out with their pumpkins and their decorations. One homeowner was so committed, he'd built a maze of cardboard walls in his garage so that you had to venture into an entrance at the front of his house and then at the end of the maze (scattered along which were scary skulls and cobwebs etc) you reached him standing at the end, inexplicably dressed as Darth Maul, handing out candy. My niece and nephew required hand-holding and gentle prodding to move along the maze to get to the end. Hilarious!

We also got treated to the sight of some amazing pumpkins:

That's a Darth Vader in the poor picture at the bottom.

But the funniest story was when my nephew Ethan went up to one of the houses and after he got his candy he remarked to his Dad that the houseowner looked like Uncle Keith. My brother in law came giggling down the driveway to tell me this and said that the houseowner wasn't even caucasian, just not Chinese.

The next evening when we went to dinner with them again Ethan was still saying how Keith looked like the man that gave him candy, and then added "but not as handsome". We found this hilarious but pretended that Uncle Keith had very hurt feelings from this comment, so Ethan felt the need to clarify "But you're still goooood!" (i.e. still handsome, just not as handsome as their neighbour). "And you're stronger!", he reassured Keith.

No wonder Uncle Keith gave them double piggyrides after dinner!