We've said before that our new house is in a better location for the kids. There are friends for each of our three nice and close by. The door bell rings all day with kids looking for their junior Stiffy of choice. And of course it's closer to the school so the kids can walk there easily every day (at least until the snow comes and probably even then). So that experience didn't prepare me for Halloween. At River Glen we would get between 80 to 100 kids come knocking for candy and so this year we prepared for similar numbers. I walked with the kids with Eric and his dad (and smoked a very nice Cohiba thank you very much) and Jo manned the door. We stuck to the street near by and most houses had their lights on and were dispensing plenty of goodies.
But the foot traffic was waaaay down on last year, there simply were not that many kids around. Also a lot of the houses didn't really go to much trouble decorations-wise. It's an older area around Pen St, most people have much older kids, many have already left home. So while the residents are great at making sure there's candy to be had when kids come knocking, there's not many kids doing the knocking. To an extent that allows the kids to do come to get a pretty good deal, as the night went on it was clear that the piles of candy waiting behind doors was not all going to be claimed. So sometimes the kids hit the jackpot and got a huge wad of goodies in one hit.
In the end we only had about 30 or so kids hit Jo up for candy, so we had heaps over. Oh well, I'm sure we'll find something we can do with all the left-overs :-).
I still don't have a regular gig, which is very frustrating. Not sure whether, if this continues, it'll mean we'll come home earlier than expected... but we've not had any discussions like that yet so time will tell. At this stage we're just looking forward to US Thanksgiving with the Ballesty's in Pennsylvania, our home trip to Aus at Christmas and skiiing at Mt Tremblant in late January. So our dance card is pretty full and we're pretty content.
Big afternoon of NFL action today, which reminds me to tell you I went to a Buffalo Bills game last weekend with my buddy Albert. We got some decent tickets off the fan Ticket Exchange (basically legal scalping), row 17 on the 20 yard line. We got down there about 90 minutes before the game and chatted with some pretty drunk Buffalonians (is that what they're called?) who had been tail-gating since the wee-hours. The weather was awesome, just like our game last year, but sadly Buffalo couldn't keep with early season form going and after a close 1st quarter the Jet's put them away. It was pretty cool to see Brett Favre QB for the Jets, he's a complete legend of the NFL and I can confirm that his laser-rocket arm is impressive in the flesh. Anyway Bills are at New England today so I'll be flicking between that game and Tennessee at Chicago (go Flaming Thumb Tacks!).
Andy, out.
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