We went to yet another party celebrating Halloween. We arrived at lunchtime with some of our home-ed friends. Most of the time we went on walk around the landscape, finding ‘inspiration spots’ for the stories – one of our friends and I love to write, so we went around for almost hours thinking up titles, names, and most of all the scenery of our tales. Most of the time when we came back to the Forest Centre (where the party was to take place), we would look in the gift shop or do face paint on each other. I got our friends’ mum to paint me a black swirl coming off my eyelid, a black cat, a cobweb, a spider, and also a bat with a violet moon on it.
Our friends all left before five, when the party host and the speakers all arrived. We got into our costumes with our tops underneath – it was very hot, but worth it, because we couldn’t feel any itchiness. Mine was black and gold, sort of with rags of golden silk and black net, and a net cobweb pattern on my bodice. Tilly had a blue and black gown with a red rose and some nets too. Our friend Elise arrived with a blue wig and sprayed red painty stuff to make her face look infected and blotchy. Her older sister Charlotte was there with her baby Amelia, who was dressed up as a cat, and looked just absolutely adorable! She was so cute!
They had competitions and songs like ‘Follow the Leader’ and stuff like that. We were jumping around so much that often we got hot and had to go outside in the cool, pitch black night! Eventually, about three minutes later, we found our way over to the park, feeling for the benches and the mini trains and bells lining the park. When we got there, we felt for the big rope swing and began to swing on it in pitch darkness. It was really fun!
But the time we got home, it was about half past seven. We watched the videos of us Mummy caught on the television for about fifteen minutes, and then rushed to bed and slept as soon as our heads touched the pillows!