Also on Friday 10/17 we hosted a family Halloween scavenger hunt party. Back when Spencer and I were dating back in 1998 I remember going to my now father in laws 65th birthday party which was a Halloween scavenger hunt and it was so much fun and such a great memory. I have wanted to host something similar for a very long time!! This was the year that I actually got my stuff together and was able to send out invites in time. We had a round 40 people at our house! Everyone arrived at 6pm in costume with their whole family, digital camera, car and Halloween treat to share. We went over the directions and left around 7:15 and gave everyone an hour to complete the scavenger hunt. It was a BLAST! The kids loved the adventure and the idea of finding things to check off our list. Everyone came back to the house and we gave out prises to the winners and the winner of the costume contest after that the kids played and the adults visited and enjoy treats. Our last guest left around 10:30 pm. It was an awesome night!! One con that we came up with was back in 1998 we didn't have digital cameras so Spencer's mom provided Polaroid camera that printed the pictures right then and there so we could all see every ones pictures. Since we all used phones or digital cameras it was kind of tricky seeing all the different pictures. We had said maybe next time we will try to load the pictures on the computer to do a slide show but with 8-10 different family cameras that might get tricky. Even though we didn't share the pictures we took, we did share stories about the different challenges and places we went. When everyone was here I was going to try to take pictures and also have someone do our family picture but because of the busyness we never got around to it. Here are a few I took before everyone arrived and a couple Aubrey took of Daddy and I.
Prom King and Prom Queen
This was on the hunt:
We found a great house around the corner from us that had a bunch on our list, a pumpkin that is not orange, a skeleton with a hat on, a ghost in the tree and a few other things.
Then we went on to Michael's were we got a picture of a Christmas display, scarecrow and our favorite a stranger wearing part of our costume, this is Dale!
We also got to mark off the mustache with that find!
The signs were fun to find.
And reacting famous paintings were also fun.
Daddy took one for the team and became a mummy in front of a tombstone.
It was so much fun and a great family activity. It was like the best of both worlds, a party with friends but also quality family time. I hope we can do it again maybe next year!
Like I said I didn't get any pictures of the grown ups :( They all looked great! We had a couple cats, crash test dummy, Flo the insurance lady, motorcycle guy, the Incredible couple, napoleon dynamite, and a few witches. The kids all looked great too.
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