Halloween 2011

This Halloween turned out to be pretty cool despite us not knowing at all where to go. Since we didn't really know the area in Tampa very well we decided to go to the mall. The Brandon mall is huge and they were doing trick-or-treating from store to store. It wasn't the ideal for Halloween but it was going to work just fine. We showed up early and started out trick-or-treating adventure around the mall, stopping here and there along the way to actually purchase a few things one of which being a new iPad for Scott that the best buy Mobile in the mall didn't have but held for us at the big Best Buy across from the mall (this comes into play later).
Most all stores were giving out candy and some were giving cookies and one even gave us each a candy corn shake. Think Vanilla shake with candy corn in it, I wouldn't buy it but it was fun as a sample for the occasion.



Here is Chance drinking/eating his candy corn shake at the mall. So after we went all the way around the mall we headed out to the Best Buy to pick up Scott's iPad. Since we aren't super familiar with the area yet we took a wrong turn and ending up getting on the interstate instead of going into the parking lot. So, we went down to the next exit and decided to turn down the first big road to see if it would take us back to the Best Buy. It did not, but it did take us directly to a perfect neighborhood for trick-or-treating. There were kids walking down the street and lots of people sitting out in their driveways with bowls of candy. Since we had plenty of time before Vest Buy closed and besides it was Halloween we asked Chance if he wanted to trick-or-treat some more and of course he said yes. So, we parked the car and headed out from door-to-door. It was perfect, everyone was friendly, it was a great family oriented neighborhood.




Chance at a house completely decorated for the holiday, graveyard and fog machine included. We collected more candy for over an hour then headed back to the car.



Chance's blue pumpkin was completely full of candy by the time we made it back to the apartment. And of course we dumped it out in the living room floor to inspect it. Not only did he have a lot of candy but it was quality candy as well, lots of chocolate and specialty things. All in all a great Halloween.