Thanksgiving Point Halloween 2009

Viktor here again.

Ever since I moved north from the temperate climate of Southern California I have really enjoyed fall.  It is by far my most favorite season.  After a long, hot, and dry summer, cool crisp air is a very welcome change.  With fall being one of my favorite seasons it is natural that Halloween would be one of my favorite holidays.  Now I am not a fan of witches, zombies, and monsters, but I am a fan of little kids dressing up as such.

About 15 years ago, a very prominent local family from the Word Prefect fame purchased a centrally located farm and started converting it into what is now Thanksgiving Point. Thanksgiving Point is a quality-of-life, education-based charity with a “mission to to inspire the minds and renew the spirits of young and old by providing unique learning experiences, family-friendly entertainment, and opportunities for discovery in a safe and beautiful environment. ”

This last weekend as a whole family we went to Thanksgiving Point to take part in their Halloween festivities.  Each year Thanksgiving Point puts on Halloween thingy called Cornbelly’s.  Cornbelly’s has a giant corn maze, rides, bouncy thingies, basically all of the fall festivity thingies that we all love.

Giant rocking chairs,

Cereal Killers,

and of course a cardboard robot and Harry Potter’s Hermione.

For his preschool party, the little one decided that he wanted to come dressed as a mummy. This seemed like a simple costume to make happen for a 5 year old so we agreed. This simple agreement was the cause of two unintended consequences:

1. Once you wrap your mummy up in two rolls of toilet paper, bathroom breaks become a problem.  Make sure that you drain before you wrap.  It’s kind of ironic that you are wrapped in 1000′ of single ply but you have to hold it in.  It was the 5 year old that pointed this irony out to me as he was ripping layers off.
2. When you go to the dollar store to buy some cheap white face paint for your mummy (for a dollar), remember that just because you think that Halloween is celebrated on one day only, to a 5 year old, Halloween is a season.  Expect him to paint his face white each and every day that there is any paint left.  Everything that he will touch from now on turned white.

Yup, that’s him with his face. We had that going for almost a week straight.