The L.A. Dime

Our neighborhood isn’t the best for trick-or-treating, so we’d made plans with the Shepherds to join them in Santa Monica. After all 3 boys got sick though, we were left to scramble at the last minute to find a new neighborhood to go to.

And so began another “wow – we live in a crazy place adventure”. A few of my work friends had told me about a neighborhood in Westlake Village where the residents goes all out with decorating their homes; setting up stations where several neighbors congregate in one driveway to give out candy and even play music. It gets so crowded that the area is watched by policemen on horses and a team of “Disaster Recovery Officers”.

We’d told Sophie that we were going trick-or-treating that night so she happily obliged the 40 minute drive (I know, who drives somewhere to go trick-or-treating, right?) and put on her elephant costume. She grabbed her pumpkin bucket and headed to the first house. At first she was pretty good about saying “truck or treat” but that quickly changed to “let’s go to the next house”. She loved seeing all the other kids dressed up and got quite a few compliments herself. She did great walking from house to house and was very interested in all the decorations. After about an hour and a cotton candy treat for Brad & I (yup, one house had a cotton candy machine set up as their treat), we left to go home. Wanting to let Sophie enjoy her treats but also not wanting to cause a sugar rush, we decided to give her a lollipop and when asking her what she thought about Halloween she responded with “Lollipop gooooooood”.

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