It’s that time of year again and I do enjoy how much DC loves Halloween.

Halloween festivities began officially on October 16th with a “Boys Day Out” trip to the Essex Steam Train Halloween ride.

I was not there – Boys Day Out – so there are not many photos.

A new tradition has sprung up over the last few years. DC and his friend *Salli have been coordinating their costumes. *Salli started this a couple of years back.

They were Bell and the Beast one year.

Sleeping Beauty and Prince Phillip

Princess Tiana and the Frog Prince and at their day program – Tiana the waitress and the frog (The princess gowns are difficult to manage all day at their program).

DC begins picking his costumes each year around August. Fortunately, *Salli starts around the same time and I normally receive my costume instructions from here in late August/early September and DC is always happy to go along with any princess combo (as you all know).

This year *Salli chose Cinderella. If you have been here long enough, you know that DC would be all in immediately and honestly, this tends to cut down on the number of different costumes DC chooses each year because they attend most of his scheduled Halloween events together.

The First party of the season was October 18th – Summer Camp Party.

DC loves his costume and *Salli looked beautiful as Cinderella.

Now, just as they did last year, they are going to change it up for their day program costumes on Halloween day. *Salli will be Cinderella before she’s a princess and DC will be Gus the mouse.

He’s actually pretty excited about Gus.

There has been a lot going on here over the last few months so we really haven’t done all that much “Halloween Stuff”, but we did manage to take a day trip to a couple of Halloween themed areas (Videos below). Hopefully we’ll have time to do some more.

Coming up in part two: Pumpkin decorating with ARC friends, Best Buddies Halloween Party, ARC Trunk or Treat, Day Program Halloween Day, and of course Halloween night!

See you then.