Halloween

Australia doesn't really celebrate Halloween so at 25 years old Mandy had never dressed up for Halloween or went 'Trick or Treating'. So for Halloween we got costumes and went trick or treating in Kathie's street and yes I know how old I am. We did get some funny looks from some people and even more when she said it was her first Halloween! A couple of the houses here go all out at Halloween there are decorations everywhere and some fake graveyards in gardens. Some of the pumpkins looked really good. We left the costumes to the day before which meant there was not a lot of choice left. I was going child friendly as there are 2 kids in the house, Mandy has discovered that she like to scare children as was sitting on the stairs at the door with the lights off so that her glow in the dark make-up would show.

Ice Hockey Game

Got to go to my first live Ice Hockey game. Went to see the Calgary Flames play the Nashville Predators. Kathie had got free tickets for one of the suites and gave them to Mandy and me. It was good as we got free food and drink. The game was OK but Calgary were in control of most of it so wasn't that exciting and there wasn't that much shouting from the crowds. Did hear the crowd shouting 'Who ate all the pies" which i thought was weird. They won 5-1 which was good and I also got to wear my hockey jersey.

Boo at the Zoo

The Zoo opened for 6 nights before halloween where they had different areas with halloween stuff for the kids and even a couple of scarier ones for older kids! It was better than I thought it would be. There was lots of things to do. Although as I was working for 5 of the days double shifts I was glad when it was over! Did get a chance to go though the Walk of the Dead and the Haunted House, the Walk of the Dead was good they had people jumping out at you but the Haunted House wasn't as good.