Halloween 2015

My my it has been quite a while since I was out and about on the 31st in a full pledge Halloween custom and with boxes of candies and chips to boot !

Turns out les Fourchettes de L Espoir where having a Halloween candy give away for the kids and delicious pumpkin soup for the grownups and they needed a hand to distribute. Needless to say they had me at candy and costume.

Thought I will say this about the kids and parents from the area. A number of kids tried to sneak in 2 to 3 times in order to have candy more than once pretending they were someone else or were now here for their brother or sisters...Funny kids and to be expected thought bold lying in your face... That I took offence and had it not been for a good cause I would of sent them packing with actual pitch forks and torches rather than the plastic ones lying around !!

Parents and grown ups where also in line trying to score free candies themselves. Quite shameful and I said as much to a number of them despite the dirty looks I received. I politely reminded them that we had a limited supplies of candies and that there where only for the kids. Plus we had delicious warm soup and bread for free, just around the corner from our table. No kidding we even had a bouncer of sort next to our table and despite my initial ''seriously ? '' reaction at the beginning I must say that beyond helping us give away candies he was very useful in keeping stranglers and the likes in check over the course of the evening.

Les Fourchettes did  a great job setting up, from boxes filled with candies, snack-bar and chips the loot people took away was most generous :) Adding to this the delicious soup and zombies volunteers prowling the grounds to entertain the kids... Heck we even had an old school ''village yeller'' calling the crowd in exclusively for us from on top an old converted funeral car via speakers. See top right in the above picture. All in all it was a nice evening despite some of my earlier expressed misgivings concerning less savory characters.