Last year Barry and I traveled to Corydon to the special goat sale to buy some new goats for our herd. We noticed that Corydon is a very "homey" little town with a lot of history to it. After we saw their Halloween Fall Fest on the square and the trick or treaters we decided if there was a way have the kid experience Corydon on Halloween we would do it. And that is how Corydon and Halloween ended up together for our group.
At the sale Creed found a new friend who he ran around with for the most part of the day and the people who were putting on the sale, who were knew, realized they were short handed for people to work the goats through the sale barn and ring asked if Cody and Cameron would help. It was a paying job so Cody was willing and ready, which is funny because he really HATES it when I have him help me work goats at the house. Maybe I just need to pay him. Hmmmm. :) Oh, a side not. They had a free lunch which consisted of shredded goat meat sandwiches. Sierra thought it was fine until Cody told her she was eating goat, then she refused. They actually were quite good.
After the goat events were over we headed back to the motel and the kids changed into their costumes.
After getting read we went to Wendy's for a quick bite to eat and then off to the town square for the FREE (we like free) Fall Festival.
The Mormon church building - looks pretty cool. This year and last year we tried to go and alas no one was there. We believe that it was their Stake Conference. I really wanted to see inside.
After every game you could get a piece of candy.
We stayed at the fall festival for a while and then headed out to go trick or treating. The kids were amazed at how many people there were.
Our trick or treating turned out to be a fail. By the time we went almost all of the houses were out of candy. It wasn't even that late - around 7:00. When we drove into town, when it was still light there were a ton of kids going from house to house. I guess we should have done that part first. Sorry kids. :(
The candy piles were quite small for most of the kids. For some reason Creed's pile was half way decent. Maybe his big brown eyes did their magic and that is why he had the most.
As parents, we felt pretty bad since we drug the kids 10 hrs from a "for sure thing trick or treating" in their home town to a small town that was over run by other Halloween goers who took all the candy. Our solution? WAL-MART! Off we headed to the Halloween candy isle and let the kids pick out one big bag of candy of their choice.
It's not the same as going door to door but it was better than nothing. :)
Later that night Cameron, Cody and Barry went to a fun haunted house at the Theater. They said it was not the evil kind of scary but the old school scary. They really enjoyed it.
Alas, I don't think the goat sale will fall on Halloween out there again for a while so the kids will be spared the trip, MAYBE. All in all we had a good time. I love spending time with my family and I am going to miss these times (FFA - forced family activities) when they are all grown up and gone on missions and college. Sigh. But for now...I am going to soak it all in.
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