A day at the zoo, & a wee bit o' Halloween candy.....

Hello everyone, & happy Halloween!! The boys & I had such a fun day yesterday --they had off of school for teachers convention & I took off of work. We decided to go to the zoo, since we hadn't been there in a while. I knew they were having their Trick or Treat there at night, but we decided to go early & avoid the crowds. Well as the day came to an end, we decided to stay for the Trick or Treat -- so we were there almost 8 hours! I wish I had worn my pedometer ----we walked the zoo twice, & then some. But it was soooooo fun --we had gone years ago & I think they had just started doing it, there weren't many stops & not much candy. And we gone on Saturday afternoon. It was SO MUCH MORE FUN walking around the zoo at night. They had HUNDREDS of pumpkins all lit up, & a light display set to music, & tons of Trick or Treat stops for the kids. We had a great time -- I just HAD to share some pictures with you!! Bear with me, there might just be a TREAT at the end!!




They had a ton of these fabulous displays, which were way cooler at night, all lit up!





My boys complained every time I wanted to take their picture, but I think they actually enjoyed posing with the mummies :)





Aliens! I wish I had gotten a picture of this display after dark ---it was sooooo cool ---it was like Close Encounters, LOL!!




This turned out kind of blurry --but the worker was PETTING the octopus --see his hand in there?? I swear his eyes were rolling in the back of his head he was so happy (the octopus, not the worker).




My little monster......




And my pumpkin :)




This is probably one of the best pictures I have of my two boys ---at the time I didn't think it turned out that well but was pleasantly surprised when I uploaded it!





This pumpkins hails from Eagle River, WI & is the biggest at 944 lbs!!





Ok I *think* Michael is rolling is eyes in this one.....





They had a scarecrow sitting on the bench outside one of the Trick or Treat stations. I told them I wanted separate pictures of them with the scarecrow.





This picture was taken right before the scarecrow turned toward Matthew & put his hand on his shoulder. Yep, it was a human & it scared the CRAP out of Matthew. I actually had my head down & was putting my camera in my purse when it happened so I missed it ----but I did hear the screams, lol. Oh that would have been SUCH a great picture!



And, for bearing with me & all my pictures --I am offering a small piece of candy. I recently came across a spare High Hopes stamps so I thought I would share with one of you...Fairy Princess. Along with that, I am offering some charms that I sell in my Etsy store. There are 3 pumpkins, 3 snowflakes, 3 autumn leaves, 3 cherries, 3 Xmas trees & 3 hollies. All you need to do to enter is leave me a comment! It can be about anything --what you like about fall, what you are doing for Halloween, what you are doing for Thanksgiving (which is just around the corner --eek!), what you're asking Santa for for Christmas --anything!! I will ship anywhere! I will keep this open until Thursday night & I will use Random.org to draw the winner on Friday!!!



Thanks so much for visiting --have a GREAT Halloween!!!!!