Busy first week home as we emptied and prepared the coach for our annual Halloween celebration at Algonac Sate Park with Ben, Emily, Jack and Molly. (We also took time on Monday to celebrate my baby brother’s birthday—Mark turned 61. And on Tuesday we shared dinner at Dave and Deanna’s with Sandi and Dave and Alice and Jim and watched the Tigers lose to Minnesota.)
Hank and I drove out to the State Park on Friday in a pouring rain. Ben and his family weren’t joining us until Saturday because of the kids’ soccer games and our friend, Caprice, decided not to drag her family out Friday night either. They were staying in a tent and would have been miserable in all that rain and cold. Friends, Art and Jane, came over from Harsens Island and we had a fun dinner at the Marine City Grill. They were very camera-shy and so I have no picture of them to post on the blog. Saturday dawned dry and sunny—thank goodness—and Hank and I put Caprice’s tent up, decorated our coach and got the pumpkins ready for the kids to carve.
We were so lucky the sun was shining and that all 5 kids—our 2 and Caprice and Bill’s 3 (plus a few kids from next door)—could play outside. Bill got firewood and we sat around the fire waiting for trick-or-treating to start at 5:30.
Emily brought along a Bubble-Fogger and it was the hit of the week-end. All of the kids were more interested in the bubbles it was producing than in the candy we were passing out. The bubbles looked like shiny ping-pong balls and emitted a puff of smoke when you popped them.
Molly dressed up as a snow angel and Jack was a cross between Boba Fett and wolverine and called himself Wolverfett or Bobarine. Hank wore a cowboy hat and I had a stylish orange witch hat. But the prize went to Bill, Caprice, Dayton, Liam and Lochlain who emerged from their tent dressed as the Incredibles.
Cries of “trick or treat” rang out and it was such fun to see all the costumes, both kids’ and parents’, and the different ways people decorated their campsites. It’s become one of our favorite camping week-ends.
Bill and Caprice brought along a projector, put a sheet on the side of their car and we had an instant drive-in movie for the kids to watch Madagascar. Again, kids from all around us dragged their chairs over to watch the movie. Perfect, as it gave all the adults time to visit around the campfire.
Temperatures went down into the 30’s that night and I marvel at how hardy Caprice’s family was to sleep in a tent—even if they did have a space heater. This is the third time we have shared this event with Ben and his family. Caprice says they will be back next fall, too, but will rent a pop-up for the event.
This last picture is one of Grandpa’s favorites.
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