Jump Around

So I guess we do live in "Stars Hollow", as Dawn Cerny has always suspected, judging from yesterday's events for Halloween. Every year the shops on Winslow Way close at 4pm for the trick or treating frenzy that ensues from 4-6. The shop keepers come out to their doorsteps and all the kids on the Island come dressed up and trick or treat down main street. They close the street down and have police officers directing traffic and the Congregational church on the corner of Madison and Winslow Way plays spooky music on their pipe organ that is heard all through town. Josh and I were astonished at the amount of candy these merchants have to buy and when we told Eli to only take one piece they said, "Oh he can have more than one!" (Maybe they don't say that to all the kids .... Maybe just cause he was so cute.) Cross Sound has a tradition of going before the trick or treating downtown starts, to one of the local senior housing complexes and visiting the residents. We did that last year when Eli was a honey pot, and this year when he was a kangaroo. Both costumes were supplied but the former Brown sisters, and cost less than $10 second hand. It poured rain in the morning but by late afternoon turned out to be just perfect for an idyllic walk or jump downtown.