so we enjoyed the bounty of halloween this year with a trip to a fund-raiser haunted house on friday night followed by a drive through of the most decorated street in the area. almost all the houses on the street participate and they go all out. as in entire fabricated houses in front of the real houses and pirate ships and stuff. (i kept wondering if they warn new home buyers who are shopping in, say, july, just what is expected of them come october). and we went to see the halloween festivities at the zoo yesterday and then stayed home to welcome tricker treaters last night. we had a pretty good number of them. fun costumes included a young billy mays, several adorable captain jack sparrows, a geisha, and an apologetic hanna montana who, reportedly, had already lost her wig. and we noticed that kids are either more polite now than we used to be, or more afraid of stranger danger, because they were really quiet when approaching our house. i'd hear a light tap on the door or shuffling feet but very few "TRICK OR TREAT"s at the top of young lungs. i thought annoying all your neighbors was part of the fun.
anyway. we also just bought new iphones. the BHE has been wanting one for a while, and we finally broke down and did it. they're pretty cool. i have to say that the Apple company is doing things right. they're so hip, they appeal to every demographic. while we were at the Apple store there was a demo class on iphones for senior citizens ("but where does the answering machine tape plug in??"). and then a group of middle school age boys came in and knowing exactly how to use all the gadgets they touched- instead of causing mayhem they played quietly and respectfully. it was like a commercial. or a cult.
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