Halloween

Yesterday was halloween in Libertyville, and luckily they do Halloween on Halloween like they did when I was growing up. It was supposed to go from 4-7, and I was really excited to be here for it because we wanted to meet our neighbors. I was thinking that we'd just meet the dads that were walking around, but little did I know.

When I was driving up, dads leading their kids around the neighborhood. That was nice to see. Then I realized that the dads were pulling wheelbarrels with coolers full of beer. Then, I noticed that most people were sitting outside instead of being inside like I remember it being. In a way, it was like a giant block party. Jen and I had planned on the inside strategy, but I got the tailgate chairs out as soon as I got home.

I'm really glad I did, because our neighbor George (who we met shortly after we first moved in) came over and walked us around the neighboorhood to introduce us. I'm really glad he did. We ended up meeting several of our neighbors to the west of our house. We're going to have to work on meeting those to the east of our house. It sounds like we'll have other opportunities. Apparently, there will be several Christmas parties and some sort of "dinner progressive" in February.

I guess the progressive involves every house in the neighborhood making a course, and the party goes from house-to-house. Eventually it ends up at someone's house for a big party. They jokingly nominated our house for that, but then told us that the new neighbors usually get a pass on the first one.

We can't wait for Christmas now!