Costume Night at Ballet

Madison and the girls got to dress up for ballet tonight, which is always fun to see.  They're all dancing around in their costumes, which is cute.  Although I don't think one of them could dress up like this:

The t-rex costume has been really popular this year.  Here's a kid in one as they come up to the President and the First Lady.  Today was a trick-or-treat event at the White House, with all the kids lined up to get candy.  We were taking a peek at this, and one of the kids decided to dress up in the inflatable t-rex costume.  Which was hilarious.

We did some work today, between writing and cleaning up the house.  Daddy and Mommy drove south to our dentist's office in Alpharetta, amazed that we used to drive that every day.  On the way back, Cracker Barrel for some early Christmas shopping, and oh yeah, they have food there too.  We weren't shopping too long afterwards, but for some reason, they assumed we left without paying.  We went up to pay, and our ticket had been voided.  Again, we shopped for something like ten minutes, something we always do.  For some reason, they assumed we left without paying!  I hope we don't wind up on Cracker Barrel's most wanted list.  Somewhere at the Cracker Barrel Headquarters in Tennessee, there is facial recognition technology at work to identify us via all the security cameras in place amongst the other random objects hanging on their walls.  You don't want the Cracker Barrel guys after you, I'll tell you that.

Anyway, we actually voted today as well.  There's one minor office to be filled.  Well, compared to last year's voting, it's minor.  Someone left an office to get into another office, which left the previous office empty.  There are three people running for that, so we dropped by a place in Cumming to do some early voting, and to get our little Georgia "I Voted" stickers.  Civic duty done for the year!

At least unless there's a run-off, which seems possible given three candidates.

During ballet today, Daddy started the latest book he got for his birthday, part of the "Lock and Key" series.  Sherlock Holmes - a younger version - is ready to solve mysteries again.  This book just came out - all while we're doing this series.  Mommy ordered a signed version, one with Daddy's name on it.  It came with about eight "Lock and Key" keychains, advertising for the book.  I think I'll put all of them on my current keychain!

Anyway, it's funny how these themes follow you around.  We'll be watching "The Great Mouse Detective" shortly too.  It is inevitable.

Tonight, we got a little further into the Nancy Drew book we've been in.  There are coded messages, exploding oranges, wild animals, and NASA locations like the Vehicle Assembly Building.  There are a lot of different things going on at once, but it's still a decent read.  Madison keeps asking for one more chapter, but sometimes it gets late - got to go to sleep some time, right?  Especially when you consider that we might be up a little later tomorrow night...!