Halloween Parade

I've got some Halloween pictures to share. Better late than never, right? 

First off, here's me: 

And here's Alicia:

There's a spooky atmosphere, as captured by this photo:



Turns out, the spooky atmosphere is caused by green hair:



In that last one, you can see the what the parade was about: cool puppets. I'm sure there were a ton of costumes, but we weren't in the front, so they remained invisible to us. Here's a better idea of what those ghosts looked like:



The old fashioned faces were a nice touch.

There were floats:



This one in particular was cool, but it stopped in front of us for about ten minutes.

It was fun though, costumes everywhere. I've never seen New York so crowded and that says a lot.

Weather

The weather has gotten perfect! It was about 70 degrees today, which is exactly the weather I want. It is perfect keep-the-windows-open weather for us. Any hotter and Alicia and I don't do very well.

The problem with this apartment (the only one besides mice since we've redone the apartment) is that most of our apartment has no ventilation. The living room only has a door, nothing else. So even if it is a nice day out, we have to keep the windows shut and the AC pumping, else it will climb to 85/90 inside that room.

But 70 and below is the tipping point, the point where that room doesn't heat up.

I still fondly recall waiting for the bus to come pick me up on an early fall morning before school. I remember the grass frosting in September. I miss that. That doesn't happen here until November. Eww.

At least we've got some nice cooler days coming. The worst of summer is over.