The Most Unexpected Halloween Surprise

 Still Crazy After All These Years

Remember the "portal keys" in Harry Potter -  objects that would transport a person to another place when grasped?  

Well I found one on Saturday.  A sort of one.

I was shopping in San Clemente with lil sis Aliss when I spotted this little costume.

As soon as I saw it I was bullet trained to San Francisco, to Paul Revere Elementary School's kindergarten Halloween parade - 1966. It was the weirdest feeling - focused like a flashlight aimed intently and speeding towards something.  You see I had this same exact (well almost exact) costume when I was little!  And here it was pristine and in mint condition over forty years later! It's the strangest sensation looking at it because I've sure changed while it hasn't.  I am just over the moon and tickled pink to have been reunited with this little costume in a box.  Let's pull out those pictures from 1966 why don't we....

 Oops!  Forgot The "Do Not Wear White Shoes  After Labor Day Rule"

That's me!!  I love how I later went in and edited my writing: I was 5 not 4 in kindergarten and U.S.A. was not the state in which I lived. (Obviously corrected the following year when I was a much wiser and geographically gifted first grader.)  And then there is that missing silent "e" at the end of "Paul Revere". (What new little speller didn't think that silent letters were absurd and maybe just some kind of hoax?  They made no sense!)

But the best part of all is the weight!  Thirty-nine pounds. 39!  That's like the size of my laptop!  Come to think of it - I'd probably have a better chance of fitting into my laptop than into this ever again. Hmm...  :)  Ah good times. Good times.

 That's One Teeny Tiny Little Witch!

Happy Halloween!!!!