The View From Here – Oh The Memories

Are you ready for Halloween?  It might look different this year, and maybe you aren’t able to go to the big parties or trick or treating like other years – there is still so many ways to have fun and celebrate the day.

My biggest memories are the simplest ones.

I remember those awful costumes.  The plastic sheet and plastic mask that always fell apart.  Most of the time you had to cover it up with your winter coat anyway. Right?

My mom loved making us costumes.  We always wished we could have something from the store, but my mom loved to get creative and if I’m being honest, those are the costumes I remember the most.

I remember dressing as half man / half woman one year.  A suit and a beard on one side.  On the other a dress, and hair in a ponytail with makeup.  Probably some hand me down costume from someone she knew.  I remember dressing as Boy George one year and having so much fun.  Inspired by the Colour By Numbers album cover I used one of my dad’s work shirts was the costume.  Drawing all over it to make it look like one of his outfits.  Lots of braids with ribbons and colour.  So much fun.

And I remember carving a pumpkin every year.  It was something we looked forward to as kids, and I still look forward to it with my kids and yes I have my own.

I love the mess of it.  The laughs that come with it.  Listening to music, singing along, getting creative with the spooky pumpkin faces that is different every single year.

I realize those moments won’t last forever.  My kids are already starting to lose interest.   Well, they say they are.  But as soon as we get close to Halloween, they suddenly get interested again.  My husband brings out the carving tools and the fun begins again.

My son is in Calgary and found pumpkin carving a fun “first date” activity.  Over video chat.  Which I thought was different and cool.   Dating sure is different in a pandemic.

Don’t let the pandemic take away all the fun of Halloween.

There are lots of “haunted houses” to see on Sarnia’s FIRST organized Haunted Halloween tour.   A chance for you to tour of over 35 amazing haunted houses throughout Sarnia and surrounding areas. Some houses may give you an extra scare!  8 maps in total. Check out the Facebook group for the maps.  Seriously.  These houses are amazing.  We were out on on short tour last night and I was actually a bit afraid to go to a few of them.  Two words.  Michael Myers.   You’ve been warned.

Korny Korners is open for Pumpkinfest.

We went last weekend and had so much fun!  You don’t have to be little to love the fun their.  The corn maze always gives me a bit of anxiety. The “what if we can’t find our way out?

How long til they look for us” crosses my mind.   I’ve been watching too many Criminal Minds episodes with my 17 year old. The mind wanders.

The animals are just too cute.

There’s mini golf.

And the wagon ride that takes you to the pumpkin patch which is fun all by itself.  I’m 49 and still giggle like a little girl when we hit the bumps in the wagon.

Everyone goes home with lots of memories, and a pumpkin for carving.

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This post was written by Carrie Buchanan