The last event of our trip here in California was, of course, Halloween. Sandwiched in between mountain walks we went to Halloween Parties, pumpkin patches and spent an afternoon Trick or Treating around the local area. The first event was a fancy dress party in the back yard of a friend of Sharon's . 'Huge garden' would have been a more accurate description with their own swimming pool, sand pit, trampoline, swings and slide, plus numerous other play structures. Everyone joined in and turned up in fancy dress, Stan was Fred Flintstone and I wore a red rock and roll skirt. Most other people, I have to say, were wearing costumes with a Halloween theme. Oh well we did our best!! The children here had a great time playing games to do with spiders and ghosts
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