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Tahoe Family Guy: Ooooooooooo, Boooooooooo, BRRRRR!! Halloween at Lake Tahoe |
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Written by Andrew Cristancho/Tahoe World - View Profile
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Tuesday, 30 October 2007 |
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When I was a kid Halloween was magical.
Being out on the streets at night (even with parental chaperones), glowing jack-o-lanterns, knocking on doors, getting candy, eating candy, eating more candy.
Good stuff. Then of course there were the costumes of the 1970s.
My mom used to buy me those costumes that came with the cheap plastic masks with the single rubber band, attached by a staple on either side. The rubber band that would wrap around the back of my head would always get tangled in my hair when I tried to take the mask off. Which I often did because after wearing the mask for about 15 minutes, the inside of the mask right around the tiny little cut-out holes for the nose and mouth would get all wet and spitty from the condensation of my breath.
The remainder of those costumes, the part that covered the body, were made of some kind of cheap material that never looked quite as cool as the picture on the front of the package; usually some little slip of highly flammable material that was always too short and revealed the clothes below.
I didn't care — Halloween was still magical.
Then in my mid-20s, before having a child, Halloween was just another excuse to have a party.
Now in my 30s, with child, Halloween is becoming magical again, although it is still a good excuse to have a party.
Now, as it was, the real fun is the dressing up and the trick-or-treating.
I forgot what real fear of imaginary monsters was until I saw my daughter get scared by a 4th street Tahoma goblin last year when he answered the door and exclaimed “BOO!” She still looks at that house with a sideways glance, even in daylight.
 Outdoor trick-or-treating has its challenges in Tahoe though.
Two years ago the snow banks were bigger than my daughter, and it was cold. Putting a down jacket over a bumblebee costume kind of ruins the effect.
“Trick-or-Treat,” my daughter would say.
“And what are you supposed to be dear? A little kid in Tahoe dressed up like a little kid in Tahoe?” the neighbor would ask.
So we beefed up the costume with plenty of layers underneath to avoid the winter parka — luckily the bee costume had a hood.
This year she wants to be a fairy with gossamer wings and a chiffon costume, which is fine for the indoors, but not enough fortification for the triple-header we have planned: Boatworks Mall's indoor trick-or-treat party; a stroll through downtown Tahoe City, where all the merchants give out candy, with Napa Auto Parts store's free haunted house at the end; followed by a round of trick-or-treating in downtown Tahoma.
Our fairy might get chilly unless we can convince her that in Tahoe fairies wear micro-fleece.
Photo by Paul Raymore/Tahoe World: One little trick-or-treater stays warm in a full-body chicken suit at the Truckee Elementary Pumpkin Patch.
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