Not just on Halloween, but the night before as well!
On the evening of the 30th we went to a Halloween event at Simmon’s Wildlife Safari.
We weren’t sure whether we were going to go or not as it had been mostly rainy all day and really cold, but it brightened up an hour before it started and so we rushed out… leading to the laziest Halloween costume ever, which was make G look dead so he could be Dead Boy!
On arrival G got a goody bag, and there was candy after playing every game, which included pumpkin bowling:
Throwing beanbags at targets:
throwing rings over elk horns, and G’s favourite, fishing, which he spent a good ten minutes doing at the end of the evening!
We walked on a haunted trail:
and toasted plenty of marshmallows, which were delicious, and listened to a ghost story:
Unfortunately, I lost my lens cap after that! But I did have a way to find it in the dark, which was to take flash photographs and see if it turned up, I must’ve looked a right idiot! But it worked, see!
It only took two more photographs and some scrabbling round in the dirt to actually get to it 
Then on Halloween itself, first we visited GP in the hospital and played dominoes, which I won!! 
Then FP, G and I went to Vala’s Pumpkin Patch.
Which was a little busy!
And where they grow a lot of pumpkins!
G, was in his new Ninja costume for it (this photo was taken outside the hospital):
(He even got to have candy in the hospital as they were bringing it round the cafe!)
The pumpkin patch had plenty of spooky things in it:
G really wanted to go into the scary house!! I don’t think he realised it would be that scary, luckily there was an escape door a little ways in, poor kid was nearly in tears with the compressed gas and pitch black and loud bangs and flashes of light! Afterwards he kept talking about how it was the worst thing about the whole day and he was never going in it again! However, there was a “mine” later on that he went through a couple of times and that was a bit dark and scary enough in a nice way for a 5 year old!
Although I found this slightly disturbing for some reason!
There were various kid things to do, trikes, slides, climbing things, a few old tractors to sit on:
And we just had to go on a hayrick ride which stopped at one of the pumpkin fields, though we decided not to pick our own!
There were also animals to feed, and little shows, and other stuff we didn’t do, including a corn maze! We just didn’t have time!
We got back, had tea and then FP took G out trick or treating up the street and came back with a huge haul of candy!!
that’s something I envy kids in the US, how they get more chance to have a good time on Hallowe’en. my kids went trick or treating and mostly got slammed doors or just no answer, but they did get some sweeties mind you.
I didn’t know there were so many different kinds of pumpkin!