The Stephenson Families' Great Californian Adventure

...or Halloween as its more commonly known! Halloween couldnt possibly live up to last years celebration, mostly due to the whole Boston / Salem witchcraft trials jobbie. Anyway it was still pretty good. Unfortunately Karina was extremely ill with a horrible flu/chest and ear infection so wasn't on top form at all but still insisted on going out. We went to the local mall where every store was giving away candy. In fact it was "OK" there - it was packed beyond all reasonable safety levels (amazing what a free mini mars bar will do in California) and the stores were pretty stingy - most often a single sweet per child. Which is good for their teeth but I guess we were spoilt last year when people were literally tipping whole bowls into our buckets! (Probably I'm just being selfish as I got lots of goodies last year... when Karina wasnt looking!). So we did the mall then a few houses... most of which I carried Karina around as she really wasn't up to it. We also seemed to be the most generous house in the street juding by the sugar-fueled glee we heard from the kids at getting "a whole bag of candy!!!". Too nice, thats our problem ;-) Oh yeah, while this was going on we were also moving into the new house. Yes, at the same time. We like a challenge.

Can you guess who Karina was this year?