This is the second year we’ve gone down to the “Old Northeast” for Halloween. Honestly, it’s a lot of trouble. It’s  SO CROWDED you can hardly move, you have to wait in line at a lot of the houses to get candy and this year it was 90 degrees and ten THOUSAND percent humidity.  But I’m telling you – there can’t be anywhere in the country that does Halloween like the Old Northeast in St. Petersburg!!  It’s worth every ounce of hassle…and more!  These people go  ALL out with their decorations. It’s like the movie “Christmas Vacation” only every single house in the neighborhood is in on the competition to outdo each other. It’s incredible.  From bodies falling out of trees while you walk by, to caskets opening up as you walk by…”chop houses” in garages where they tell the kids they have to exchange an eye ball for candy. (Josh wanted NOTHING TO DO with that house.) This year one of the houses had a stage set up in the street in front of their house and had fire dancers and other performers as you walk by.  One of my favorite houses this year was the THRILLER house – they had life size characters of Michael Jackson, warewolves and other people from the Thriller cast on their front lawn – INCLUDING a giant big screen TV playing the Thriller video. It was pretty cool.  The kids’ favorite house is of course the Wizard of Oz house. This woman dresses up like the Wicked Witch of the West – stands on the balcony of her house with a microphone and calls to the children – and blows FIRE out of the top of her house when she gets angry. It’s incredible!! Josh was asking for a week ahead of time if we were going to see the “witch house”. SO much fun was had by all. Like I said, a long night, but well worth it.  Here’s some  pictures from our night.  NEXT year we won’t be dressed in black. As I said, it’s incredibly crowded down there and all 3 of my kids were in black. Next year they’re wearing neon with flashing lights on their heads.

Here’s my little kitty – isn’t she the CUTEST????

Here is the Wicked Witch of the West :

Here Josh is a little disturbed by a dismembered arm sitting next to him!