Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, I suppose because I am a chocoholic. According to the online Wikipedia, the holiday, a Celtic tradition, was brought to the US with the Irish immigrants in the mid-19th century. Today in the United States, Halloween has become the sixth most profitable holiday (after Christmas, Mother's Day, Valentines Day, Easter, and Father's Day) for retailers according to Wikipedia.
I have a big jack-o-lantern, a blow-up spider and I dress up to scare as many children and adults as possible. I have had a jack-0-lantern of 300lbs., but this year is on the puny side, just 55lbs. I'll post a picture tomorrow. The picture above is my 100-pounder from 2004.
I also enjoyed a round of haunted golf at the Congo Falls in Ocean City, which converted its indoor "Lost City" into a Halloween celebration with animated skeletons and a really creepy hanging body that looked real. Plus, I beat the pants off my nephew Garrett. Revenge is sweet; he beat me the last time.
I was bummed out last year when my jack-o-lantern was smashed on Mischief Night; I had only been in the apartment two weeks and thought that was very un-neighborly! My upstairs neighbor Debbie swears she will keep a hose handy tonight!!
Later