Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

Charlie’s a Halloween Baby, which is a fantastic excuse to have a big blowout, which we’ve turned into an annual deal. Since Halloween falls in the middle of the stupid week this year, we had the party early.

Last year I kept the camera close at hand, this time I carried it for about 3 minutes, took a few shots and went and hang out instead. It turned out to be a good plan!

But here’s the birthday boy- the theme was Edgar Allen Poe, and he was a dashing Prospero, the noble who throws the party in the “Masque of the Red Death.”

(more pics in the Gallery)

We had to have it on Friday since we were going to see Charlie’s son-in-law play Voodoo Music Fest on Saturday (Writeup here. Summary: phenomenal).

Voodoo ran Friday-Saturday-Sunday and Alison went for the first time…we had her parent/teacher conference on Friday morning and her adviser asked if she was going. I sighed and told her it was a big “parental trust fall,” which she thought hysterical.

“Hmmm, let’s see. You want me to leave you with my ATM card in a sea of high school/college kids amongst all the beer tents, daiquiri shops & pot smoke and not ask any questions? Yeah, let me give that one some thought.”

So we compromised. She went and I grilled her like some redfish on the coals. It worked out well!

Now I think I’ll sleep straight through until Wednesday when we start building the Kaboom playground.

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