Halloween 2006

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Halloween is absolutely my FAVORITE holiday of the year!  We really went all out this year, for whatever reason, and traveled the better part of the state to find various indoor/outdoor decorations for the big event.  I'm particularly proud of the landscaping we had done this year, the house just looks SO awesome!!  I played with some additional camera features for this year's pictures too.  I did some photo stitching to get a photo with a very large horizontal aspect and used the movie feature to put together a tiny AVI file.

This year, Libby stayed home and handed out the candies while I took the kids out trick or treating, which was no small feat for me.  My joints are all pretty much locked up now so I managed the nearby houses with my cane, but had to use the car for the remainder of the journey.

Hunter heard a rumour of kidnappers from GOD only knows where, so he was pretty much terrified to go near ANY doorways without me 3 feet away.  Andrew was in fine form, disavowing any fear whatsoever (despite visibly shaking at a live "haunted house" display).

All in all, everything went swimmingly and we all had a super good time.  Sorry I didn't get more pictures from the observation of All Hollow's Eve...but we were a wee bit busy at the time.  Anyway, here's what we got.

ENJOY!

So first, the kitchen.  So sparce...this was Day 1 and the decorations grew from there.  Nice tablecloth, with Coin Robot, a wax hand and a wax skull.  Cool!	BLING was absolutely a necessity this year.  No bling?  No Halloween!!!  So...see my bling and worship it...you know you want to.	Outside we begin.  Under the lamp post is missing a lighted signs by two hands that came up out of the ground.	That was added AFTER we went on our final hunt for deco...on the Friday before nevertheless.	Again, I'm so sorry for only the day pictures.  At night, there were strobe lights and mood lights EVERYWHERE!
All the pumpkins were blinky and all of the characters at the door lit up and screamed like crazy.	This was the coup de grace.  The front door was lit by an eerie green light that made that skeleton come alive and be seen from 2 streets away.	This was just before the sun went down...NO kids you notice.. even the early birds were too frightened to ring our doorbell once I fired up the music.	Hunter was WAY more than excited about the prospect of CANDY!  Sadly, he would be disappointed... it was a night of true terror... peanuts EVERYWHERE!  But we managed.	When I got home with the kids from Trick or Treating, THIS is how I found Libs and the cats.  Wiped out.  We all were.  What a GREAT Halloween!!
		Please pardon the tinyness of this picture...but it's worth the wait.  When you click on it, you get a HUGE panoramic view of the house using a new Photostitch package I'm using.  Neat!  Don't mind the install window you get, please run it...I wrote it so there's no nasties in it.  ENJOY!	Here's the movie functionality I told you about.  It's not Hollywood, but it sure is cool!  Just press the play button up above there and have FUN!! I think I need an agent now!  LOL.