Happy Halloween!!
6 days ago
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Halloweens of the Past
So I was sitting here tonight with my daughter watching It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and all of a sudden I started remembering what fun Halloween was for me when I was younger. My favorite memories were of the Halloween parties that we had at the Church. Everyone would get a room to decorate or set up for some kind of Halloween carnival type thing... the room the comes to my mind first would be the "Operation Room" Where you had some people behind a white sheet with a light shining towards you showing you their shadows during their "operation" and the poor guy on the table who was being operated on who would always lose his guts and so much more... It was really creative and I swear to this day there were eyeballs in the bowl of stuff that I had to put my hand in : ) Oh it was so fun and innocent in a way. I'm sad that today it gets taken to a level that loses that innocence and so you are limited to what you can do. Then there were the days of being so jealous of the high school kids who got to stay out late and have egg wars in the street... yea that is when you threw eggs at each other, not cars or houses... I think when I was actually old enough to join in I threw my eggs at the actual street just for the fun of it... We were pretty wild back in the day... So there you have it, some memories of the past that when I think about it were so much fun!!
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Robin,
ReplyDeleteI totally loved the operation room too! Our ward had some awesome halloween parties! The egg throwing was also rather fun too. Love your blog by the way.
Shauna (Ealey) Bjork
A couple weeks ago, when we were trying to come up with carnival ideas for our Trunk-or-treat I thought of the operation room. I remember putting my hand in a bowl of guts...or rather, spaghetti noodles. I loved it. So much fun really is being taken away from Halloween...what, do children REALLY need to be THAT sheltered.
ReplyDeleteYeah - our ward had something special, I can't quite get the ward here to grasp anything like that...too many rules now.
ReplyDeleteThose church parties were great! And I remember getting slimed by thrown eggs on Main Street in Rye. It was in our hair! So fun. The street was always packed with people. Do you remember going to the Nature Center for a spook trail with our Girl Scout troop? Those haunted houses in town were so much fun too. Man, I could go on forever with memories...
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