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Halloween, 2015

Just one kid left at home?  Noooooooo!  I can feel our limited time with trick-or-treating....at least until Annie can hold up her own head :-)

Glo owned her costume this year, going as Batgirl.  She had been ignored a bit over the previous days, but she just stepped up and took care of things herself.  She and John headed out on the State College appropriated Trick-or-Treat night of October 29, 2015.  Two hours and ten pounds of candy later...




The next day, Glo and I left for Ann Arbor to catch Mark played with the University Philharmonic for the Halloween concert.  It's great fun, seeing all of the performers dressed in costume.  Plus, this time I wasn't there to rescue him from having his entire life stolen, so it felt happier already.

Glo went dressed up.  Between surgery and a new baby born, I kind of forgot to pack any kind of costume.
Lame, I know.

Glo (again) was a champ, and stayed up until 2 a.m. the night before, helping Mark craft his dinosaur head.  He and the rest of the horn section were characters from Jurassic World.    No joke, when Mark came out on stage (all of the performers come out to music), you could hear all the kids in the audience get excited.  I personally have no idea how he played that entire concert in that costume!



Yep, that's Mark in the blue dinosaur costume.
You can just see the safari workers, and the other dinosaur...in green...and a lot smaller :-)

Look at that orchestra!  There were so many great costumes!

Afterwards, we headed to Zingerman's for lunch where our cashier had a great time, playing off of Glo's costume for our order.  And yes, in true Zingerman's fashion, our server yelled out the name on the order to find us in the restaurant.  It was great fun!


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