As is tradition, Mark and I dressed up and went out on Hallowe'en night. This year, Mark, Kristy, Matthew (Mark's brother) and I went as Fred, Daphne, Shaggy and Velma from Scooby Doo. I wanted my brother, Steven, to dress as Scooby Doo, but he was not interested, so we had to borrow a stuffed Scooby from my work.

(My other idea for Steven was to wear a white sheet and an old man mask, hold a ghost mask, and keep yelling, "I would have got away with it, too, if it wasn't for you kids!". Steven was not amused.)

Thanks to Mark for computer editting this photo to make us look like a real "mystery machine". It was one of the few pictures where Velma's glasses weren't reflecting! Now I know why I got contact lenses ...


Sadly, we did not win a costume prize for our efforts. Group costumes and individual constumes are usually two seperate catagories, but this year, all costumes were judged together, and we were eliminated in the first round. If they were judging groups seperately, I think we still would have been runner up to Dorothy, the Tinman, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz, and then battled with the two Fraggles for second or third place!

However, our group did not walk away empty handed. Matthew won a draw for a trip for two to Salem, Massechusetts!!! We were all really surprised and excited, especially since he had not originally intended to join us, and had wanted to go home right before the draw was made!