11-01-2013, 02:49 PM
So I was feeling a little regretful bailing out on my usual RM Halloween run of EDM shows, but getting back to the Cruz and just relaxing while doling out candy sounded fine. I get home and am immediately informed that T and I are to go to the wharf to meet one of her school friends and go trick-o-treatin. Ok, cool, no prob, sounded kinda touristy but ok. The wharf was pretty touristy and word was that the action was all downtown where the streets were blocked off and was said to be a total freakshow. We met T's friends and got to the end of the wharf for a spectacular sunset - glowing pink skies and the ocean glittering like milk. The anchovy run is still on so the sea lions were braying, the pelicans were diving and the seals were having some crazy ocean orgy, like a dozen of them slip sliding over each other in about a 10 foot radius. But then...thar be whales. I saw my first whale breach. In fact, I saw three breaches, including a double breach, two whales at once in perfect coordination, plus a glorious tale slap. What a Halloween treat.
Turns out that T's friend's brother had a friend who lived on Seabright only two blocks from our bungalow, so we hopped in the car and headed over there with that family. They had a raging party going on. Their yard was fully decorated with gravestones, skeletons, hopping spiders and fog machines, and they had a big projection screen on their roof showing the original Godzilla, or more accurately Gojira, not the Raymond Burr U.S. re-edit, the original. Ghostbusters was showing on TV inside the house. And that house was spectacular, totally rebuilt by our neighbors over the last dozen years into a cozy hobbit hole. Very impressive. I don't know how many kids there were (or how many adults for that matter) as we were all in costume. We actually lost a kid, who was returned to us by a thoughtful trick-o-treater behind us. I didn't even know that kid was with us. Turns out his parents had just dropped him off at the party and no one was really watching him as we were all too focused on our own kids. He had called his parents on his cell, but we got it all sorted. I was handed a tall glass of red wine, which kept getting magically refilled, and told we were headed to Ocean View, which is the San Lorenzo river side of Seabright, about a half dozen blocks away.
Ocean View has some of the nicest homes in Seabright. All of the homes that border the water are pretty nice. The Ocean View street homes are grand mansions and that neighborhood totally went for it with massive-scale yard decorations. The 'hood's most beautiful homes gone goth. It was crazy with costumed families. Several houses had projection screens showing movies - T laughed so hard seeing the blind man scene from Young Frankenstein - she's never seen that flick but it's on the queue now. T & her classmate ran into a few seniors who were really drunk, which they both thought was hilarious.
It was awesome, but next year, I gotta get downtown for the freakshow.
Turns out that T's friend's brother had a friend who lived on Seabright only two blocks from our bungalow, so we hopped in the car and headed over there with that family. They had a raging party going on. Their yard was fully decorated with gravestones, skeletons, hopping spiders and fog machines, and they had a big projection screen on their roof showing the original Godzilla, or more accurately Gojira, not the Raymond Burr U.S. re-edit, the original. Ghostbusters was showing on TV inside the house. And that house was spectacular, totally rebuilt by our neighbors over the last dozen years into a cozy hobbit hole. Very impressive. I don't know how many kids there were (or how many adults for that matter) as we were all in costume. We actually lost a kid, who was returned to us by a thoughtful trick-o-treater behind us. I didn't even know that kid was with us. Turns out his parents had just dropped him off at the party and no one was really watching him as we were all too focused on our own kids. He had called his parents on his cell, but we got it all sorted. I was handed a tall glass of red wine, which kept getting magically refilled, and told we were headed to Ocean View, which is the San Lorenzo river side of Seabright, about a half dozen blocks away.
Ocean View has some of the nicest homes in Seabright. All of the homes that border the water are pretty nice. The Ocean View street homes are grand mansions and that neighborhood totally went for it with massive-scale yard decorations. The 'hood's most beautiful homes gone goth. It was crazy with costumed families. Several houses had projection screens showing movies - T laughed so hard seeing the blind man scene from Young Frankenstein - she's never seen that flick but it's on the queue now. T & her classmate ran into a few seniors who were really drunk, which they both thought was hilarious.
It was awesome, but next year, I gotta get downtown for the freakshow.
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