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I think that Halloween is the favorite holiday of many children, and dentists! This year was no different; my children had a blast making me walk several miles. Just as my dentist will have a blast counting his money after the work he’ll get because of the metric ton of candy we brought home.

This year, we met up with friends and went trick-or-treating through the neighborhood. The neighborhood is basically divided into two sections, with each side containing many small mazes of small side streets. Needless to say, it wasn’t long before we got lost…not that the kids cared! It took a GPS function on our phones to help us get out. Like the commercials say, “There’s an app for that!” Too bad there isn’t an app that helps me get rid of all of that sugary goodness…

Trick-or-Treat, Candy Quest 2013

It’s that time of year again.

Soon the streets will be filled with candy-crazed ghosts, ghouls, zombies, and sexy MILF pirates. This year, both of my kids wanted to be filthy bloodsuckers. No, not lawyers…vampires. My 10-year-old son told me “Dad, I would love to be a vampire for Halloween. But, not the stupid sparkly kind.” Then he started a two-minute rant about spontaneous combustion.  That was probably one of my proudest moments as a father.

We didn’t have enough time or money to do pumpkins this year. Fortunately, I found a couple of rally cheap fake jack-o-lanterns at the corner store. They’ll do. They certainly aren’t as awesome as this one:

This guy has some pretty cool pictures. It’s definitely worth checking out.

“Jack-o’-lantern” © 2010 William Warby, used under creative commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en