[Mpls] Halloween in the Park

[Svattheriver at aol.com]

Why were there police and Fire trucks at  Matthews Park?
To lead the Halloween Parade. 

Angels, Skeletons,  John Lennon, a bag of jelly beans, the little match girl, 
Fred Flintstone, a  girl that wandered in from the prairie, locomotives and 
many other well  disguised parents and kids marched in their sartorial splendor 
through the  Seward neighborhood to end up back at the park for treats served 
by a witch with  a Park Board ID and games run by wonderwoman.

We even had a parade float  of a UFO with aliens capturing an innocent 
looking child (who was really the  space alien who was both the alien and the child 
and then there was the mad  scientist who was really masterminding the whole 
thing including some kind of  mind control to get some adults to dress up like 
aliens and drag a UFO through  residential streets)

It was a great parade with 250-300 participants  gathered at this great Park 
sponsored event- a wonderful community gathering of  neighbors meeting 
neighbors.

There were less trick or treaters at my  house than last year probably about 
20 in total and mostly young kids. I didn't  see many teens- maybe they were 
all at Al Bangora's Haunted House at Powderhorn  Park.  

Thanks,
Scott Vreeland  Seward