Best Halloween ever

Last year we spent Halloween in Dubai. You can imagine Kassie's dismay trick or treating during Ramadan. (Fortunately we stuffed a load of candy into one of our suitcases.) Spending the second-highest rated North American holiday in England also paled in comparison to tonight's festivities. (A formerly pagan ritual to some Brits, certainly in our old neighbourhood, apparently smacks of anti-Christian sentiment.) This Halloween not only did Kassie have a ball but her parents too, as we took her and her younger cousins around, ran into old friends chasing after their little ones, finally ended up at friends' houses for wine, pizza and cake, and rounded off the evening with a beautiful walk home in absolutely perfect autumn weather. A glimpse of a smiling former Canadian Prime Minister exiting his house amid excited ghosts, goblins, and various television characters made quite an impression too.