Holy Crap!!!

[audie]

Are you kidding? The high school kids were out full force in our neighborhood. Just because they're not so little doesn't mean they don't still love candy and dressing up.

There's a gaggle of them downstairs now in my house. They're swapping candy. All I can hear is "I'll bid you two Snickers for one full-size Hershey" "One Reese's going for one Almond Joy plus a Smarties..." It's getting pretty heated. At the rate they're going, there's not going to be anything good for me to raid tommorow!

you may have to referee the candy swap, plus charge them 10% of their candy for your trouble !

 

[Mermaid]

you may have to referee the candy swap, plus charge them 10% of their candy for your trouble !

I don't dare go downstairs. When I left, the candy was flying from kid to kid. I don't want to get hit in the crossfire.

 

[audie]

be kinda hard to explain getting a shiner from a hershey bar wouldn't it ?

 

[Rudyjohn]

Are you kidding? The high school kids were out full force in our neighborhood. Just because they're not so little doesn't mean they don't still love candy and dressing up.

There's a gaggle of them downstairs now in my house. They're swapping candy. All I can hear is "I'll bid you two Snickers for one full-size Hershey" "One Reese's going for one Almond Joy plus a Smarties..." It's getting pretty heated. At the rate they're going, there's not going to be anything good for me to raid tommorow!

Ours were out in full force too, including mine. We encourage it. It's funn to still be a kid while you can. They just go out a little later so not to scare the little ones. Then they came back here for pizza then went back out again. I think it's a blast & will always love halloween even when I'm in a retirement home!

 

[Mermaid]

Ours were out in full force too, including mine. We encourage it. It's funn to still be a kid while you can. They just go out a little later so not to scare the little ones. Then they came back here for pizza then went back out again. I think it's a blast & will always love halloween even when I'm in a retirement home!

Our one stipulation is that since the high schoolers are already pushing the limits by trick-or-treating at their advanced ages ;-) , they have to wear really good costumes and put on a good show. They never disappoint.

 

[Mango]

Ours were out in full force too, including mine. We encourage it. It's funn to still be a kid while you can. They just go out a little later so not to scare the little ones. Then they came back here for pizza then went back out again. I think it's a blast & will always love halloween even when I'm in a retirement home!

I was surprised to see the teenager kids from the neighborhood come, but was glad to see that they still were in the spirit of it. They are all good friends and good kids and they go back and hang out at my neighbors.
They have hung out here with their parents too. I'll miss when they go off to college.

 

[audie]

Our one stipulation is that since the high schoolers are already pushing the limits by trick-or-treating at their advanced ages ;-) , they have to wear really good costumes and put on a good show. They never disappoint.

that's a good idea - around here they just wear a mask with their street clothes, go around the area, then they just switch masks and go around again - makes me so irritated

 

[Teresa]

I heard quite a few people say this. Why?

It was good for me...especially seeing all my little friends! spidey as Batman / Kate as Cinderella / little ibd as a sock hop girl!!!

we had a blast - it was the same to me as far as crowd and funn. It's always chaos and spidey (batman this year) is a zombie due to overstimulation but he still thinks he's having funn (halloween is his favorite holiday of the year because of playing with all his friends at seaside for hours in costume - it's not even about trick or treating or candy).

next year, we should plan our own little halloween party on the green so we can take the kids trick or treating, then they can run around while we lounge on the lawn with cocktails and food from modica or spiazza.

 

[Teresa]

some neighborhoods in sowal have trick or treating, such as Grayton. But in my neighborhood, it would be like sending kids out into the pitch black darkness in the swamp, and they would have to walk quite a way between houses - then nobody would answer the door because they wouldn't be home or wouldn't be expecting children because its just not conducive for trick or treating.

we don't miss it because Seaside and other places (baytowne, gulf place, and certain neighborhoods) have done such a good job in making halloween more a fall festival with so many funn things to offer children and adults. It's just a big huge party! The adults enjoy it as much as the kids... I don't know why we have to go to school/work on halloween!!! or the next day!

 

[kathydwells]

I live in the country and my house is off the road and up on a hill. I have never had any trick or treaters. It rained until about 7:00 here last night, so all the kids got a late start. Jesse didn't even say a word about going this year. He is 13 and I guess he is just over it. It was kind of sad though. I am glad to know that all of you had so much funn!!!!