Supposedly, Halloween this year falls on a Tuesday. This is a bad idea. Weeknight Halloweens are sad. You need a full day to prepare for proper trick-or-treating and a full day to recuperate from the trick-or-treating. And to try to get the crappy hair dye out. This does not work on a Tuesday.
So, Halloween 2006, and all Halloweens going forward, have been moved to the last Saturday of October. Last year, when we were young, we made this announcement way too late. There was confusion. There were empty candy bowls. Some dressed as naughty nurses on Saturday, some on Monday. It was chaos.
This year, let it be clear. Halloween is on Saturday October 28th. And we’ll have our bowls of candy and a rotten pumpkin or two ready to go. We’re not sure how much trick-or-treating goes on in our new ‘hood but we’re expecting a few more little kiddies than we saw last year in downtown condosville. Is it still tradition to truck children to the richy-rich neighborhoods for candy collection duties? We’re hoping so. BTW, if we get our act together, we’re hoping to produce a Halloween candy-quality forecast map for our part of Capitol Hill. Stay tuned and we’ll see you on Saturday.
under your plan, kids would never get to wear their costumes to school.
Which is the whole freakin point of Halloween. Gosh josh. So we’d create Costume Friday. Are you with us?
Welcome to Halloween on Capitol Hill – you are in for a big surprise: we are the “it” place for kids to load up on their holiday loot. Seriously, families bus their kids in from less affluent neighborhoods to cash in on our goodies. Last year we had over 250 kids knock on our door. North Capitol Hill is also appealing because the streets are less steep then other areas and many of them don’t go through so less car traffic.