Yes, you did read that title correctly and no I did not mistype (as I often do). If you have never heard of Trunk O' Treating before reading this blog, you are not alone. Before moving to this area I had never even remotely heard the term, but come Halloween 2013 in Rocklin, this is the big thing everyone does for the week leading up to Halloween night. The idea behind Trunk O' Treating is that you go to a parking lot (it's organized, not just random people), and people decorate the trunks of their cars and hand out candy. It's an idea that can only happen during Halloween time... when else can you tell your child to go up to a trunk of a car and get candy from a stranger (that may or may not be in a cage in their hatchback).
This Trunk O' Treat was through Gabby and Jason's church. They had a chili and cornbread contest before... so naturally free food and candy, the Wood family was there!! After the wonderful food we started the real fun. Jacob and Memo had been practicing all week on how to say "Trick or Treat!" They both did quite well with thee phrase. Memo was very good at saying "thank you," whereas Jacob just took the candy and ran.
I forgot to mention that Memo was Boo from Monsters Inc. She was absolutely adorable!! Jacob's favorite thing there was the giant pumpkin (as seen in the picture at the top). Every time he saw it, he made a bee line towards it. Watching Elmo run was hilarious!! Speaking of which here are two videos of Boo and Elmo just running and being funny...
The kids were so tired by the end of the night. Jacob didn't get up until 9:30 the next morning and still took a 2.5 hour nap!! It was a great warm-up to trick or treating!! we will definitely be doing this again.
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