Energized by Candy

This past weekend was Halloween and even though all I thought of for most of October was Homecoming, I was really excited for Halloween as well. My friends and I didn’t really make plans until the week of and we literally decided on a costume two days before Halloween; we were sailors. And even if we did make plans a little late, it was definitely the best Halloween yet!
For Halloween, I went trick-or-treating with Taylor Cieslak, Gabe Baugher, Brooke Kucha, Kelly Glynn, Sam Spokaeski, Bridget Fitzgerald, Rachel Zuckerman, and Ally Koltunchik. We went to Sam’s house for pizza and stuff before trick-or-treating. I didn’t realize how cold it was until we were out walking around, and I was freezing because I had a thin shirt one, cropped pants and ballet flats. But we all froze together, except for Ally who had the brilliant idea to be and Eskimo for Halloween! We went around in Sam’s neighborhood for a while, stopped at her house where we several of us borrowed sweatshirts from Sam and we went into a couple other neighborhoods as well. When we were done trick-or-treating, we had heard of this haunted house/yard that someone had set up on a street off of Newburgh. We decided to go. When we pulled up there was a man, dressed in a black cape and wearing a scary mask that crept toward our car until he was up against the window. All of a sudden, he banged the widow and made a terrible noise! Even though we were all ready for him to do something like this, we all screamed, and I felt bad for the mom who was driving us. He kept near our car, hitting the windows and looking in them, us screaming the entire time. And at one point, when he had left the car, Taylor, Sam, Rachel and I decided to get out of the car! At first it was only Tay and I who had gotten out of the car, because as soon as we stopped and got out, the man ran towards the car! And when Taylor and I were the only ones who got out, he began to chase us! But being the cross country runners that we are, he couldn’t touch us! Although, I will admit we ran straight for the car and piled in. When we finally returned to Sam’s house, we all stayed over late, sorted our candy and watched a movie.
After that, Tay, Brooke, Gabe and I spent the night at Brooke’s house. Gabe fell asleep as we began to watch Silence of the Lambs and after the movie was over, Tay, Brooke and I stayed up to about four, energized by our newly acquired candy stash.