Hario Halloween Carnival

Tonight in our Hario Village Housing, MWR (Morale, Welfare & Recreation) sponsored a Halloween carnival which they called “Theater of Evil.”  There were carnival games, food, a haunted house, an open-air movie and trunk-or-treating. 

Tinkerbell and Peter Pan

 

It rained on and off all day so I was glad when the rain finally stopped at around 3pm because the kids were very excited about getting to wear their costumes and going to the carnival.  Leah had planned on being a black cat this year but after she saw that Aaron was going to be Peter Pan, she wanted to be Peter’s best friend, Tinkerbell.  (Thankfully I had a Disney Store gift card!)  They look super-cute in their costumes and even more so when they wear each other’s! 

Peter Pan and Tinkerbell?

 

There was a costume contest at 4pm at the commissary, but they weren’t interested.  The carnival was from 5-8pm and my original plan was to eat an early dinner at 4:30pm and then walk over to the carnival, but the kids did not cooperate with cleaning up their toys so we got a late start on dinner which meant we didn’t get to the carnival until after 6pm.  There was supposed to be “trunk or treating” on the street (blocked off from cars) between the ball field and the NEX (Navy Exchange) but by the time we got there it was all gone.  The kids did get some candy from MWR personnel and from the 1^st Class Petty Officers Association (which had a guy in an awesome Optimus Prime Transformers costume) so it wasn’t a total bust.  We saw some friends from school and from soccer but most of the kids we saw were either older or younger.  We didn’t go into the haunted house because it was not recommended for kids under 10 and without Matt there, I couldn’t have dealt with two freaked-out kids simultaneously.  I think they really don’t know what a haunted house means.  It’s just as well since they both got freaked out by the It’s Tough to be a Bug 4-D movie at Animal Kingdom.

The best part of our evening was the carnival games.  Each game cost $1 and the kids played five different games each.  There were prizes at each game, regardless if they actually won.  Aaron’s favorite game was Tic-Tac-Toe, where you throw bean bags into squares and try to get three in a row. 

Aaron got all of his bean bags into squares

Leah’s favorite (and mine) was Monster Catapult where you try to catapult a monster beanie baby into a bucket. 

Monsters away!

For most of the games Leah and Aaron played they let them move up closer to the targets, which was nice.  Overall, it was a fun night and a nice warm-up for Halloween on Wednesday.

On their way home to check out their loot!