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Happy Halloween 2016

Eva and Andrew in their Halloween Costumes
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We did something different for our Halloween this year. We went over to our friend’s house and went trick or treating around their neighborhood. It was so busy. That was a far cry from our neighborhood where we get maybe 40 people in the night. The kids had a great time with their friends and came home with huge buckets of candy. It reminded me of Halloween when I was a kid. I’d collect a ton of candy from all over the place. Their neighborhood was such a nice neighborhood. We left a bowl on the porch with a note to just take one. It was empty when we returned. Pretty sure it was hit the moment we got into the house. Glad we only put out half of what we had.

Andrew was excited about Halloween all day. He decided to ditch the Iron Man costume for the Skylanders Wallop Costume that we received to review. He really liked that costume. Eva, of course, is all about Harry Potter and loves her Hermione costume so much. She has been talking non stop about it and was delighted with each person who recognized her as Hermione. They both thought that my costume was a riot. I combined my Sriracha Bottle Costume with my Optimus Prime Helmet and went as “Srirachamus Prime”. Observe.

I am Srirachamis Prime. #Halloween #Transformers

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Andrew and I played Skylanders after school today. We played with the Sensei Candy Coated Chopscotch as well as standard Chopscotch and we made an Undead Imaginator with a Creation Crystal. The standard Chopscotch and the Undead Creation Crystal were given to me by Activision. I bought Candy Coated Chopscotch myself on release day. Here is my video about those toys.

Thoughts on the Nintendo Switch & I Found Super Mario Hot Wheels

MY Super Mario Hot Wheels Finds
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I know that I am way behind in talking about this but I’m excited about the Nintendo Switch. This is the next gaming system from Nintendo and is coming out in March 2017. Can March get her sooner? Please!

This looks like a really amazing system. I love the Wii U and especially the Gamepad. This has been great to play for the past five years. I bought it so that I could play Skylanders Giants and so many other games. I can play while the TV is on so I can do two things at once.

I was playing a lot tonight. I am currently playing Skylanders Imaginators and having a great time. I made a couple of new Skylanders today and also opened some of the mystery treasure chests that contain nine pieces for creating Imaginators. I am still not sure why you would buy these but I got a couple to make a video, of course, I did not have time at all to actually put the video together. We made parts of one but I didn’t complete it. I need to compile them all.

Speaking of not completing something. I only found 5 out of the 6 Super Mario Hot Wheels Character cars. I was unable to find Yoshi. I was going to show you them when I found all six but I ended up playing video games all night while watching TV with Allison. So, I made this very quick vlog today.