Halloween Spooktacular Night

The zoo here in town has this great halloween bash several of the nights before Halloween. They have characters there like Geoffrey the giraffe and the Jacksonville jaguar, candy stations and the whole place is lit up with pumpkins and cool lights. At some of the stations they give out various glow in the dark items, masks, blinking pins, it was all pretty cool. It started at 6:30 and so I thought leaving by 6:10 would be great, especially since we were forecast for thunderstorms and Georgia and Florida were still playing in a huge SEC matchup here in Jax. That wonderful theory ended as we saw the police lights in the distance and the large line of cars waiting to get into the parking lot! All in all it wasn't too bad and we were through the gates by 6:35. I felt like I was at DisneyWorld in July. Once we got through the front area where people were confused on where to go we were fine. The kids had a blast and they enlist lots of people (all dressed in great costumes), there were singers everywhere, free chocolate milk-who couldn't get enough of that?, bouncy houses and slides and my personal favorite-funnel cakes! We were even lucky enough to find Savannah's binky that she dropped in the bouncy house area-kudos to Tristan to looking around the chocolate milk stand. So we exited with 4 glow in the dark necklaces, 3 glowing bouncy balls, 2 flashing pumpkins, 7 stick masks, popcorn, candy, and a lot of smiles so I guess I would chalk it to being a success. Jaesen, they had loads of fog machines! Another thing that happened this past week was that Tristan earned his first badge and belt loop for cub scouts, he did a great job and we are on our way to earning more good stuff too. Today we had soccer-in the pouring rain. Tristan was first and they got soaked, well we all did, because I am the mom who has to be there watching and of course that means we are all there watching. Poor Jack was huddled under a blanket trying to eat a soggy sausage biscuit, Savannah was soaked because she kept ducking out from her cover in the stroller and I was trying to juggle her, the food, an umbrella and watch Tristan. I must have been fairly comical as the McDonald's bag tore from being so wet, my coffee cup was mostly full of water and the water was dripping off the umbrella down my backside. Tristan did score 3 goals so it was worth it. And so that brings to a close another week in the Yerger house, next week is Halloween, wish me luck!!!