A post called Steve

     Ah, the wonderful holiday known as Halloween. The holiday where all you have to do is dress up and walk around to get free candy. Is there anything better? Not to mention all the parties at school, getting to stay home from school, and all the scary stuff that happens like finding a distorted Ken underneath your bed. ( I`ll talk about that later.)

     The party started on Friday, when the whole 6th grade walked to "Legacy Village", a rest home that might as well be a hotel. This place is mammoth. I talkin` HUGE. They have game rooms, salons, fitness rooms, dining rooms the size of restaurants, a serenity room, a movie theater that plays new movies very day, and more than 4000 rooms. Only about 20 of them came to the multipurpose room that day to watch us sing Halloween songs. We sang the "Addams Family" , "Flying Purple People Eater" ( that one did not get my vote), and " Little Shop of Horrors". We got really in to that one, with full out dances, hands in the air, and ending in dramatic poses. Everybody was really nice, even though they probably thought we were crazy hooligans, considering the fact that it was also crazy hair day.

     After we sang to the folks in the multipurpose room, we went door to door and gave people candy. Some  people got really excited, some people were kind of excited, some people would never let us leave ( cough, the lady with the dog), and some people were just really confused. The party continued when we went back to school and ate candy till we all threw up.

     I think now is the appropriate time to talk about Ken. It was Saterday morning, and we were cleaning Hannah and Janie`s room. Trust me, it is hard work. Anyway, Mom was cleaning out behind their bed when suddenly, she screamed. We all started to stare at her when she yelled " KEN!!!!" We all looked over, and to our horror, she pulled out surfer Ken, with his head all smashed, and his legs bent to the left. Fortunately, we were able to fix the head, but his legs, we fear, are permanantly like this, so I made him a wheel chair.



Sylvia really enjoys nursing Ken



 



     Carving pumpkins was certainly an adventure. My pumpkin was HUGE. Well, you know, a casual huge. You know, big... no, BIG. Some advertisments might say " These knives are hard on pumpkins!", but if I were to make an advertisment for my pumpkin, it would be " This pumpkin is hard on knives", because I broke 3 pumpkin carving knives in the process of carving it.

      When most of us were finished, Mom went to pizza, and that isn`t even the best part. Someone left their pizza crust outside, and while Rachel, Mom, and I were finishing carving our pumpkins, the seaguls attacked. They were everywhere. Circling the sky like vultures. Finally, one of them dived. Then two, then three. They were fighting over the pizza. One of them grabbed one end, another grabbed the other. Finally, one of them just swallowed it. They all stayed for a while, but eventually, they left.

     Monday was Halloween! We celebrated by inviting almost all of my mom`s side of the family over for dinner. I decided to go trick-or-treating with my friends Kambree, Kevin, Lincoln, and Chayse was already at Lincoln`s house, so he came too.  I decided I was going to be a garden gnome. We made really poofy pants, a green pirate shirt, and  a red, pointy cap.