Our Halloween

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Yesterday was a fun but long day. I came home exhausted. I was going to post last night but fell asleep before I had the chance. We started the day by driving to Indiana. We wanted to take our son to where we went the previous week, knowing he'd love the bookstore and antique store in Decatur, Indiana. We also went to their retro gaming store there, and he got to pick out a DS game for his 2DS. My son prefers the older game systems over the newer ones. After we walked around and did a few things, we decided to go to this place called Monster Pizza. It was decorated like an old monster movie theater. They even played classic horror movies in the background. Yesterday they were playing Frankenstein while we ate. The pizza was amazing too. The prices were super reasonable. We got a large pineapple pizza, side salads, and pretzel breadsticks with beer cheese. My husband probably shouldn't have eaten all of that, but sometimes it's best to let him indulge instead of confining him to a diet 24/7, and now that we are getting his diabetes more under control, letting him splurge once in a while isn't too bad. He eats much more healthy during the week and will splurge sometimes on the weekends, and usually even when we splurge it's not entirely without his diet in mind. Pizza is just a cheaper option when dining out because one pizza can fill us all for 20 dollars instead of paying 14 plus dollars per person. After pizza, we decided to head to Fort Wayne, but we didn't do anything there. We decided it was probably best to make it back to Ohio so we would make it back on time for trick-or-treating since my son still loves trick-or-treating. I know people have issues with teenagers going trick-or-treating, but I have always thought it was much better than other things they could be doing. I believe in letting teens be kids for as long as possible. My son is nothing but respectful when he's out trick-or-treating. He walks up and says trick or treat, gets his candy, and says thank you, and will sometimes make a joke or something if there's something funny to be said (yesterday there was someone who had a skeleton sitting in a seat next to him and my son joked that he must have been there a long time). He's respectful of the little kids and lets them go first. He has also been known to give smaller kids candy if he sees they are low on candy or sad. I know I've seen teenagers run from house to house not being mindful of small kids, but that's not my son. He's always mindful of the littles. Anyway, on our way back home, we stopped at a gas station, and we saw a llama. At first I thought it was fake, but it was real. The guy even walked his llama through the gas station. I have no context as to why the llama was there. I don't know if the guy maybe owned the gas station or if he was a random guy walking his llama, but either way I was amused. The guy joked that his dog was bigger than someone else's. We all laughed. My son missed most of this because he was asleep in the backseat and had been since just before Fort Wayne. I woke him up to see the llama, but he went back to sleep. We got as far as Defiance, Ohio, and decided to stop at the Independence Dam, which was so pretty at this time of year with all of the fall leaves. We got out and stretched our legs and walked around, and my husband and son skipped rocks, and then we got back in the car and headed home. At home, we relaxed for a bit before heading out. I helped my son put on his makeup for the five o'clock shadow for his costume. My son went as Indiana Jones, and my husband was the boulder. I made my husband's costume. It wasn't the best boulder costume, but when you're on a budget and they don't make boulder costumes (trust me, I looked), you do the best with what you have. I took poster board and cut out two circular shapes, spray-painted them gray, and then attached elastic to hold it on my husband's shoulders. It wasn't the best, but it kind of worked. I didn't have the time or money to do anything more elaborate. I also thrifted most of my son's costume. The only parts of my son's costume I bought new were his whip and his jacket, which I paid 20 dollars for, and he needed a new jacket anyway, so it worked out. The hat I bought at Goodwill new with tags. After trick-or-treating, we went and got food, and drove out to a light show near us where they sync music with their lights for Halloween (they also do a light show for Christmas; they put a lot of work into it). We then drove home, and we were all exhausted, and we all went straight to bed. I might edit this later with pictures, but it depends how much time I get.