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Live In Los Gatos
Oct. 19, 2007
Categorized in: Los Gatos Events
Tagged with: costume, events, halloween, haunted houses, howling halloween, los gatos, movies, scareathon, trick or treat
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Oct. 15, 2007
Categorized in: Los Gatos Events
Tagged with: costume, events, halloween, haunted houses, howling halloween, los gatos, movies, scareathon, trick or treat
Are you getting "into the spirit" of Halloween now? Perhaps you're ready to make
some plans to celebrate the spooky holiday? Here are a few events near to Los Gatos. You can find a really enormous list
of pumpkin patches, haunted houses and other events at Bay
Haunting.com too.
October 20, 27 and 31st at the Winchester Mystery House: flashlight tours
(these sell out in advance - reserve yours early)
October 26 Los Gatos Public Library at 3:30pm: Halloween stories in Flannel for grades pre-k and older.
Sunday, October 28 3pm to 4:30 pm: Younger children's costume
parade (ages pre-kindergarden through 3rd grade) at the Civic Center Lawn in Los Gatos. For more info, see the Los Gatos Observer article on this fun event.
Wednesday, Oct 31 Halloween Karaoke Dance Party
At 1
Broadway in Los Gatos
Jul. 21, 2007
Categorized in: Los Gatos Events
The kids and adults arrived at Border's in Los Gatos well before the 9:30pm start time last night so that they could get their colored bracelets, identifying when they'd be permitted to line up to purchase their books. It was a lot like the system Southwest Airlines uses to let you know when to board. First it was the orange banded folks, then the silver, and finally the blue. I'm better at identifying the square footage of a house by sight than I am the size of the crowd. There were a lot of people. This made holiday shopping lines look easy. It was more reminiscent of the patient anticipation for one of the better rides at Disneyland. One child emerged with the hardbound copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and exclaimed that it was the best day of his life. No lack of enthusiasm there! In addition to costume-viewing, there was just a lot of friendly converstation with other town residents to pass the time. I had the pleasure of chatting with a warm and interesting woman named Ellie who said she believed she was the oldest person at the event. She was close to my father's age and I believe she was right - I would dub her most spunky senior citizen! Meanwhile, my husband, Jim (nature lover and volunteer parks commissioner for the Town of Los Gatos) had his own ideas about how to pass the time. Spotting what Ellie identified as a June bug (a huge thing that looks like a cockroach that was blown up magically into something enormous - very Harry Potter-esque) and decided to put it on his pantleg. The insect was fine with it but eventually walked up to Jim's shoulder. Hitting skin was another thing entirely and the hitchhiking bug was eventually placed on the large oak tree in front of the California Cafe. I like nature too, but not that close, so I was glad to see it scamper up the tree and out of Jim's friendly reach.As we left Old Town, parking places had opened up and the line had dwindled to 20% of its original size. Things were finally winding down. I don't know what time the last customers were sold their books. I do know that some who weren't aware of the need for color wrist bands (folks who reserved before July 8th weren't told) were lingering as they were disappointed to learn that they were "wait listed" to get the book. Some of our son's old classmates from St. Mary's Elementary School were in that boat. I hope they got their books - they waited until the very end in hopes of getting them. To see more photos, please visit today's article covering this event on The Los Gatos Observer. |

Oct 26 at Old Town, Los Gatos at 5:30pm:
Meanwhile, my husband, Jim (nature lover and volunteer parks commissioner for the Town of Los Gatos) had his own ideas about how to pass the time. Spotting what Ellie identified as a June bug (a huge thing that looks like a cockroach that was blown up magically into something enormous - very Harry Potter-esque) and decided to put it on his pantleg. The insect was fine with it but eventually walked up to Jim's shoulder. Hitting skin was another thing entirely and the hitchhiking bug was eventually placed on the large oak tree in front of the California Cafe. I like nature too, but not that close, so I was glad to see it scamper up the tree and out of Jim's friendly reach.