Trick or Treat

All Hallow’s Eve brings about witches, wizards, elves and other mystical creatures that go bump in the night. This Monday was Halloween so I wanted to publish a post with a spooky theme.

I own two costumes, both flapper dresses. One is a conservative calf length red dress suitable for church and one is a thigh-high black dress inappropriate for church.

My boyfriend Gabriel and I went to the Spirit Halloween in Carbondale to go shopping for his costume. Next to the flapper costumes was a costume called “Dapper Gentleman” that Gabe paired with fangs and a fake cigar to be a vampire detective.

But we didn’t have that many formal activities to choose from because it’s illegal for adults over 18 to go trick or treating in Carbondale and we couldn’t find a suitable Halloween party without drinking so instead he just came over to my apartment and my roommate Ushna took a photograph of us together with her brand spanking new iPhone 14.

We also went on a pumpkin walk which was a nature hike with lots of decorated charity pumpkins and jack o lanterns.

We did the nature walk once and Gabe wanted to go on a hay ride and do the hike again at night so we could see the jack o lanterns glowing in the dark, but I was too afraid that a ghost would haunt us!