Hrappy Ralloreen
~~The beginning of the day: the six year old at school for the parade. He wasn’t so sure he liked all the attention he got as Scooby.
Trick or Treating East Bay: The rest of our “cast” was stranded in Dublin, so we packed up the feast and headed over to celebrate on the far side of the bay.

More Tricks: This GLAMOROUS photo was taken by IZ. Yes… I’ve gained weight… but not THAT Much. Sigh… It was a rocky holiday… notice the green headband. Somewhere in my house are yards of lavender ribbon just waiting be wrapped around a headband. Ack. I really should have altered this mammoth dress to come closer to fitting. It’s too big on top and I forgot to compensate for my *curves* on the bottom, so the ribbon is taped on with clear packing tape in the back so I could get the dress on. Heh. Oh well… next year.
“Freddy” took this photo… he didn’t have his costume on by the time we arrived… He’s not going to be a fashion photographer either. Poor “Velma” came home from work to find that the cat had puked on her costume and as you can see IZ and “Shaggy” share a common wardrobe.

Despite all the set backs, we had fun. The six year old summed it up best on the car-ride: “You know mom… I would rather see my family than go trick-or-treating anyway.”