Some people go crazy with Christmas decorations, a rare few do both Thanksgiving and Christmas, but it’s only the very elite hard core decorator who goes for the end-of-year trifecta of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.  Our across-the-street neighbor is one of these people.  Behold:

Halloween extravaganza!

The picture can’t really do it justice.  The skeleton inside the glowing coffin on the first floor moves around.  The dude on the organ at the far right plays scary music.  And there are speakers that play all manner of screams, cat yowls, and other scary sounds.

My favorite costume of the night: a family of three little girls, the middle one dressed up as Dorothy, ruby slippers and all.  The little one was the cowardly lion, which was very practical since it looked very fleecy and warm.  The eldest (maybe about 4 years old) was dressed as the wicked witch, and she had ruby slippers, too.  Clearly she was the Wicked Witch of the East, pre-house-crushing.

Carisa’s favorite costume of the night: three little girls, maybe about 6 years old, dressed up in ripped up cheerleader costumes covered in blood.  Yeah.