Happy Halloween

There has not been much hype and preparedness for Halloween in the days following Hurricane Sandy but that has not stopped us dressing up and heading out this evening.

Minnie Mouse, the Green Man, a bleeding skeleton and a scary, masked, black-robed alien all ventured onto Columbus Avenue for some Trick or Treating.

Halloween in the city is mainly 'treating' and by 'treating' I mean the kids walk into all the restaurants and stores along Columbus Avenue and surrounding streets in our area and grab hand loads of chocolates and lollies.  They eat and pick up so much candy, it gets quite sickening!

We bumped into some of the boys' friends on our way up Columbus Avenue so together made our way through the streets.

The highlight was definitely walking along 69th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Central Park West which is closed to traffic on Halloween.  Most of the brownstones decorate their stoops and facades with witches, goblins, ghosts, monsters and ghouls and the whole street becomes a Halloween Party!  Loads of fun.

We also decorated our doorway in case some kids in our building came by.
As you can see from the pictures, we had a great time....

Australian chocolate

Our front door

Sam's pumpkin

Ben's pumpkin