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To: Rambi who wrote (40778)	10/31/1999 2:59:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

<<And in between movies, one of the channels has had a chain reaction of Tales From the Crypt, and we've watched those.>> SiFi channel? We switched to that when both the games went to 24 - 0.

To: Rambi who wrote (40778)	10/31/1999 4:50:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

My children have been dressing up for the last few weeks. They have had Halloween parties to go to and of course our town has a down town trick or treat night which was last Thurs- and then they went to school dressed up on Friday, and then we went to the town next to ours for their downtown merchants trick or treat and cat walk (which was great since it was from 3-5pm- and you could actually see and take pictures). Meg and Molly are witches- but not the ugly kind. They have very expensive lace trimmed dresses that look nicer than some of the formals I wore in high school. Patrick is Darth Maul- complete with double light sabre. Meg's party was great. I must say I hope all our parties are this good. the lady who volunteered for the craft came in with 32 nice size pumpkins- and felt, and feathers, and pipe cleaners, and pompoms, etc- and for 1/2 hour the kids decorated pumpkins. Which was very very messy, but lots of fun. Girls like feathers on their pumpkins, boys do not. Boys had lots of "blood" on their pumpkins girls did not- interesting sex differences I thought. After pumpkins we did charades. I had made cute little ghost cards (like you make hearts cutting on a fold) so the ghost opened up and no one could see what was written on the inside. We broke the kids into 10 teams and each team got a scary halloween creature- the team could all be the creature, or you could have victims and creature, etc- interesting process and the kids loved it. Then we played monster libs- one of the parents made an overhead of them and the dad came in and led the kids in teh game. That was a big success and the kids were sorry to stop. The dad who played monster mad libs and his wife- also brought in a cauldron and made monster punch- they use latex gloves ot make ice "hands" and then they also put in plastic eyeballs, and other gross plastic toys (you got to keep what showed up in your cup) and they put dry ice in it to make it smoke. (I think that may have violated the school codes- I do not think you can have dry ice at school- but who will know? And I do not know this for sure...but I suspect). The same people had brought graveyard brownies- each little brownie rectangle toped with a vanilla flat (lorna doone?) cookie sticking out of it like a headstone with RIP written on it. We had two other platters of cookies- one I brought and I also got Ice cream and chips of many kinds and bowls of popcorn. I am happy to say we made at least one boy sick (who apparently went back for 5ths- I think HE may have learned a valuable lesson about gluttony)- so I am fairly sure the food was a success. We took several class photos of all the kids posed together- and I am going to take the best of these to Costco and get a copy for each child. Party bags were handed out as the kids left. All in all very satisfying.