Alright, back to our report.
At the conclusion of the last update, I promised another photo of the young man in the robot costume.
And, here it is:
This was, in fact, made from a wastebasket. Also note that the costume lights up. Good job!
I have no idea what this man was thinking:
This little Tinkerbell really liked Rocky. And he liked her:
I loved this father/son combo. And this guy said that he wasn't wearing a wig:
Here's Snow White's chicken and penguin friends walking back from their campsite with some fresh beers:
So, it was about here that our candy supplies were about exhausted.
The TCD twins were on the fence about whether or not they would go trick-or-treating. They are 15 now, and they thought they were finally too old. But, you may have noticed that there were quite a few older kids trick-or-treating.
So the girls rigged up some costumes, and headed out:
Back at our site, they folks kept coming.
The Flintstones came by in their great cart:
I think the Flintstones were cabin people. I never saw their cart around any of the campsites, and I saw them drive out of a cabin loop when I was out on patrol.
If I hadn't already awarded the best costume award to Joe Dirt, these guys would have been in the running:
I asked the fellow in the overalls what he was dressed up as. He said a Hillbilly. I asked him where he got the overalls. He said, matter of factly, that he was from Kentucky. There you go.
I also liked this little girl's costume.
I told her she was the only Smurfette who had been by all night.
She asked what was a Smurfette?
I said it was a girl Smurf.
She said she wasn't a Smurf.
What do you think?:
Definitely a Smurf, right?
She said no-that she was someone from a movie called Avatar.
There's a movie called Avatar?
Never heard of it!
Actually, this girl's costume and make-up was done by her grandmother, who was walking around with her. She really did a great job, didn't she?
This guy, dressed as Beetlejuice, was in character.
He tried to steal Mrs. TCD's basket:
That's one of her Longebergers. That guy would not have gotten much further had he not immediately put the basket back down. He doesn't know how close he came to getting it good.
The carts and trick-or-treaters kept on coming:
It was somewhere about here that the TCD twins came back and asked if I could run them over to the 1600 loop. They had run into TiggerInBama's daughter who told them that the 1600 loop was where it was at candy-wise. So, Mrs. TCD agreed to hold down the fort (meaning our campsite, not the entire Fort)(and I also mean she watched the campsite, she didn't really have to hold anything), and I headed out with the girls on the cart to the 1600 loop. There, we ran into a bunch of great Disboarders, old and new, and the girls did, in fact, load up with candy. I even got a few treats myself, including a very generous handful of candy from Melissa (MandMLUVMMandDVC), and even a kungaloosh from Rick (Mr. clkelley).
It was about completely dark then, and we headed back to base camp to finish out the trick-or-treating.
Our Gators were a popular photo-op all night:
The "Do Not Enter" sign was missing from the 700 loop exit, so we had a lot of carts coming down the wrong way all night:
At about 7 pm, we ran out of candy.
But not trick-or-treaters.
In fact, the 700 loop became grid locked about then:
One of the reasons for the back-up was that there was a car stopped and an ambulance and security vehicle parked right outside the path leading to the Settlement, and traffic was being turned back:
Hilda had watched the whole scene play out. She didn't know what happened, because as far as she could tell there was not collision between the stopped car and anything or anyone. But, Hilda recognized that a big-shot security person had arrived at the scene. She even had a name for the lady, which I can't remember. But she pointed out that the lady always wore a suit, and, in fact, this lady was wearing a suit, and looking very serious and official. Hilda sent me to find out what this was all about. I really couldn't figure it out. One of my DD's was walking by the scene, and asked one of the occupants of the car what was going on. She was told that there was a boy in the car who had some type of diabetic reaction, and I guess they decided to stop right there and call for help. As far as we know, everyone ended up being fine. No one went anywhere in the ambulance, and the scene was cleared after about a half hour. But, boy what a back-up it caused.
My DD also reported that when the ambulance first arrived, it apparently went the wrong way, and the castmember previously identified as Segway Guy unleashed some choice profanity, including a very loud F-Bomb! Bad show Segway Guy.
I have opened a file on Segway Guy, and will be keeping my eye on him.
Next up, more photos from Halloween night!
And photos of the three campsite decoration contest winners.
TCD